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FOR ALL AGES
 CONTENTS
History 6

Science & Technology 52

Art & Literature 98

Geography 144

Music 190

The Natural World 236

Sports & Leisure 282

Food & Drink 328

Film & TV 374

Potluck 420

Answers 466

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 INTRODUCTION
Doing quizzes is a great way to learn facts, test your knowledge,
and have fun. With 450 quizzes and 10,000 questions covering a
wide range of topics from dinosaurs, inventors, and ancient history
to comics, film, and food, there is something for everyone.
Test yourself on your favorite subject or challenge your brain
and try something completely new!

Each themed section has 45 quizzes. Each quiz has 15 Easy,

15 Medium, and 15 Difficult sets of questions. Half the quizzes
have 20 questions, and half have 25 questions. The quizzes are
numbered from 1 to 450. To find the answers, look up the number
of the quiz in the Answers section.

HOW TO USE
THIS BOOK
There are many ways to use the book. You can do the quizzes by yourself,
in teams, or with another person. Here are a few suggestions, but you can
create your own quiz games to play.

• By yourself. Work your way through
the book from the beginning. See
which is your best subject. Do one
quiz from each section each time. Go
back and do the quizzes again to test
your memory. Then try the next quiz
in the section until you have done all
the quizzes in the book.
• Quiz in pairs. Each person can
take turns choosing a number from
1 to 450 and then going to that quiz.
Set a time limit to answer the questions.
Score a point for each correct answer
and another point for the person who
got the most right answers. The
first person to get a set number
of points (say, 100) is the winner.
• Play in teams. Write the section
names on a piece of paper and put
them in a bowl. Each team takes
turns selecting a piece of paper.
Put the piece of paper back in the
bowl. The teams do one quiz from
the section (in the order they appear).
Then select another piece of paper
and so on. The team with the most
correct answers at the end of a set
number of quizzes is the winner.

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 CHAPTER 1
HISTORY

HISTORY

From ancient to modern

history, check out the people,
battles, and events that shaped
our world. These quizzes will
test your knowledge of
dates, names, and places.

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 EASY QUIZ 1

HISTORY
World War II

1. What was the operational name for
the D-Day landings in June 1944?
2. Which Japanese city was hit by the
first atomic bomb?
18. What does “kamikaze” mean?
19. The invasion of which country
prompted Britain’s entry into
the war?

3. Which Battle of Britain fighter had 20. Which winter-long battle for a
the same name as a type of storm? Russian city began in 1942?

4. What was a “doodlebug”? 21. Was Italy one of the Allies?

5. What does “blitzkrieg” mean?
6. Which British prime minister
declared war on Germany in
September 1939?
7. Who was in charge of the SS?
8. Stalin was the political leader
of which country?
22. What was the name of the
machine used to create German
secret codes?
23. Which event brought the United
States into the war?
24. Which European country declared
war on Germany alongside Britain
in 1939?

9. What was a “blimp”? 25. Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was

the name for Hitler’s attack on
10. Men over 35 were too old for the which country?
draft in the US. True or False?

11. Where might you find an

Anderson Shelter?

12. What sort of gun was a Sten?

13. Which nation sent its Red Army to

war in Europe?

14. A “Sherman” was a type of what?

15. What was a B-29?

16. In which month did the Allies

declare “Victory in Europe”?

17. What was the name of the German

general who was in charge of the
Afrika Korps?

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 QUIZ 2 EASY
HISTORY

The Vikings

1. In which centuries did the 15. By the 12th century ce, Viking raids
Vikings live? across Europe had ended due to the
Vikings’ adoption of which religion?
2. What name is given to Viking
stories and legends? 16. Viking warriors believed that if
they died in battle, they would go
3. What were Viking to a heavenly palace. What was
warships called? its name?

4. On a sword or dagger, where 17. Which Norse god had an ax and was
was the hilt? associated with thunder and trees?

5. Viking helmets had horns. True
or False?
6. Which Viking god was considered
the most important?
18. Does the Norse word “vik” mean
a creek or inlet, a horned helmet,
a ship?
19. Where did the Vikings come from?

7. What were Viking combs
made of?
8. The first known Viking raid on
England was in 793 ce. Where
did this attack take place?
20. The Vikings were the first
Europeans to colonize North
America. When did they land in
what is now Canada? Around the
year 800, 900, 1000, 1066?

9. A Viking woman could choose

her own husband and demand
divorce if he was unfaithful.
True or False?

10. What is chain mail?

11. What was the ornamental carving

on a ship’s prow called?

12. Which Viking explorer was the son

of Erik the Red?

13. The Viking cemetery in Lindholm

Høje is one of the largest. It has
how many graves: 300–400,
600–700, 1,000–2,000?

14. What farm tools did many Vikings

take to battle?

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 EASY
Famous Ships and Commanders
1. Where in 1982 did Rear Admiral
Sandy Woodward lead a British
task force?
2. Which British admiral sent the
famous signal “England expects
that every man will do his duty”?
3. Which American aircraft carrier
fought at the Coral Sea and Midway
battles before being sunk? Was it
USS Yorktown, Nautilus, or Missouri?
4. Which German pocket battleship
was sunk following the Battle of
the River Plate in December 1939?
5. Which famous Roman commanded
the Egyptian Fleet and was defeated
at the Battle of Actium?
6. Who commanded the Spanish
Armada in 1588?
7. Who commanded the US Pacific
Fleet in World War II? A famous
US ship in the late 20th century
carries his name. Was it Omar N.
Bradley, Chester W. Nimitz,
Douglas MacArthur?
8. Which famous ship sank in sight of
Henry VIII and the attacking French
fleet in 1545?
9. What was the name of the
Argentine cruiser controversially
sunk by the Royal Navy in 1982?
10. What was the name of the first
nuclear-powered submarine?
11. Who commanded the British Grand
Fleet at the Battle of Jutland: Haig,
Jellicoe, Trenchard?
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QUIZ 3
HISTORY
12. What was the British flagship at
the Battle of Trafalgar?
13. Which American hero captured
a British frigate off Scarborough
in 1779?
14. What was the name of the ship
heroically commanded by Sir
Richard Grenville in the Azores
in 1591?
15. The 16th-century North African
Corsair Kheir-ed-Din was better
known as: Barbarossa, Saladin,
or Blackbeard?
16. The sinking of which British liner
by a German U-boat off southern
Ireland in May 1915 helped bring
the US into World War I?
17. The Japanese naval officer
who conceived the attack
on Pearl Harbor was: Tojo,
Yamaha, Yamamoto?
18. Who thought he could finish a
game of lawn bowling before
beating the Spaniards?
19. Which German battleship sank
the British battlecruiser
HMS Hood in 1941?
20. Who designed the giant iron
sailing steamship SS Great
Eastern, launched in 1858?
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 QUIZ 4
HISTORY
Kings and Queens
1. Who was the first Tudor monarch?
2. Which king of England was known
as “the Confessor,” because he was
very religious?
3. Which king of England and
Scotland has his name linked
to a translation of the Bible?
4. Who reigned in Britain from 1837
to 1901?
5. Which English monarch faced
an armada?
6. Which king of England was crowned
in Westminster Abbey on Christmas
Day, 1066?
7. Which king of England signed the
Magna Carta in 1215?
8. Who became the first king of
Scotland in 843?
9. Who was known as
“Bloody Mary”?
10. Which king of England had to
fight a civil war against his
cousin Matilda?
11. What was the Christian name of
all of the Hanoverian kings?
12. Which English king won a great
victory at Agincourt?
13. Who was the Sixth who also became
the First?
14. Which King Edward gave up
the throne uncrowned?
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EASY
15. Which English king was known
as the Lionheart?
16. What was the original last name
of the House of Windsor?
17. Who was last sovereign prince
of Wales, killed in 1282 during
the struggle against Edward I
of England?
18. Which English king was known as
both “Edward Longshanks” and
“the hammer of the Scots”?
19. Which king of England and Wales
had six wives?
20. Who was the last Yorkist king?
21. Queen Anne had 18 pregnancies.
How many of her children survived?
22. Which king was known
as “Unready”?
23. Who was the last British monarch to
lead troops into battle?
24. Which king is said to have lost the
crown jewels in the Wash in 1216?
25. Which monarch was also Empress
of India?
 EASY QUIZ 5

HISTORY
Ancient Egypt

1. The pyramids were tombs for the
Egyptian pharaohs. Is the oldest
pyramid at Giza or the Valley
of the Kings?
2. Pharaohs were believed to be
“living gods.” True or False?
3. What did the Nile do every year
in ancient Egypt that enabled crops
to be sown?
4. For how many years did the
ancient Egyptian civilization last?
5. What original color were the
pyramids at Giza?
6. The pharaoh wore the crown
of Upper and Lower Egypt to
symbolize the country’s unity.
True or False?
7. Which pharaoh commissioned the
temple of Abu Simbel to be built?
13. What oval symbol was a pharaoh’s
name written on?
14. What was the form of writing used
by the ancient Egyptians?
15. What stone helped scholars translate
the Ancient Egyptian inscriptions?
16. Shabti figures were buried with the
dead so they could serve them in the
afterlife. True or False?
17. The jackal-headed Egyptian god
of embalming was… ?
18. What is the name of the book that
prepared ancient Egyptians for their
journey to the afterlife?
19. The brain was pulled out through the
nose as part of the mummification
process. True or False?
20. Who was the last Egyptian pharaoh?

8. What does the word

“pharaoh” mean?

9. Which pharaoh commissioned

the Great Pyramid?

10. How many limestone blocks are

in the Great Pyramid? 1.3 million,
2.3 million, 3.3 million?

11. After the pyramids were raided by

grave robbers, where were the
pharaohs buried?

12. The tomb and treasure of which

pharaoh was famously discovered
in the Valley of the Kings in 1922?

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 QUIZ 6 EASY
HISTORY

The Cold War

1. The Cold War is widely considered 13. The Cold War never featured
to have taken place between 1947 any direct military action. True
and: 1955, 1979, 1991? or False?

2. What simple terms described the 14. In 1947, US President Truman

opposing sides (communist countries announced the “Truman Doctrine”
and democratic countries) in the to look at the benefits of communism
Cold War? East/West or North/South? for the US. True or False?

3. Herbert B. Swope coined the term 15. What was the name of the Soviet
“Cold War.” True or False? Union’s secret police?

4. What was the name of the 16. Which US secretary of

communist alliance that state outlined a plan for
opposed NATO? rebuilding Europe?

5. Where did a missile crisis take 17. What year did the Berlin Wall
place in 1962? come down?

6. A blockade of which European city 18. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

in 1948 resulted in supplies being in 1979 caused Cold War tensions to
airlifted in? flare up. True or False?

7. In which 1950s war did the 19. Who was the first US president to
USSR and the US fight each visit Moscow?
other indirectly?
20. What gift did President Nixon
8. What was the name of the group of receive following his visit to China?
countries that wished to stay neutral
in the Cold War?

9. When was NATO formed?

10. Which US president was behind the

“Star Wars” program?

11. Which “friendly” country did Soviet

troops invade in 1956?

12. When was the Berlin Wall built

to stop people from leaving
East Germany?

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 EASY QUIZ 7

HISTORY
Castles

1. Which conquering people brought
the first castles to England?
2. In which part of a castle were
banquets held?
3. What were the private chambers of
a castle lord called?
14. What were narrow vertical openings
in the castle walls that allowed
missiles to be fired called?
15. By the 15th century, the widespread
use of gunpowder made castle
fortifications less relevant. True
or False?

4. The Normans first built motte 16. The gaps in a castle’s battlements
and bailey castles. True or False? are called what?

5. Which is the largest castle
in England?
6. What is the name of the last castle
built in England?
7. What part of a castle did a person
called the “Gong-Farmer” have to
clean out?
17. What was the spiked metal
barrier that could be lowered over
the castle gates?
18. A concentric castle can also be
described as… ?
19. Where did the lord of a castle sit
during a banquet?

8. The fortified tower at the heart of a 20. King Henry VII was born in which
castle was called the… ? Welsh castle?

9. What name is given to the ditch

around a castle’s walls?

10. What was often poured down “Murder

Holes” onto attacking soldiers?

11. Castles provided protection to those

inside, but they were cold, smoky,
smelly places to live. True or False?

12. Most castles had a small private

chapel beside the lord’s chambers.
True or False?

13. An “oubliette” was a small hole in a

dungeon where prisoners were left
and forgotten. True or False?

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 QUIZ 8 EASY
HISTORY

Medieval Europe

1. Which English king started the
Hundred Years’ War with France?
2. The original intention of the Crusades
was to capture which city?
3. The Medici family dominated life in
which Italian city?
4. For what did Edward I raise funds
by taxing moneylenders: churches,
palaces, wars?
5. What killed 80 percent of the people
who caught it?
6. What did Wat Tyler lead in England
in 1381?
7. Who was the first monarch of the
Plantagenet dynasty?
15. What name is often given to the
Islamic people who ruled much of
Spain during the Middle Ages?
16. Animals were put on trial in
medieval times. True or False?
17. King Edward III required which skill
to be practiced every Sunday?
18. San Gimignano in Italy is
famous for its: towers, tombs,
torture chambers?
19. Which fish was sometimes used as
currency: eels, sturgeon, or carp?
20. Which part of the body did armor
called “greaves” protect?

8. What caused the greatest loss of

life for English forces in the
Agincourt campaign?

9. What style of architecture describes

Chartres Cathedral?

10. In medieval England, children

drank beer because it was safer than
water. True or False?

11. Which traveler said, “I have

not told half of what I saw”?

12. Which German metalworker

pioneered printing?

13. A trebuchet was a type of what?

14. Medieval peasants would consume

up to how many calories per day?

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 EASY
The Tudors
1. Which English monarch did Henry
Tudor beat at the Battle of Bosworth?
2. How many of Henry VIII’s wives
were beheaded?
3. York was the capital of England
during Tudor times. True or False?
4. Name the best-known Tudor theater.
5. Which American state was named
after Elizabeth I?
6. What was the split with the Roman
Catholic Church called?
7. Which country tried to invade
England with the armada?
8. Which Englishman did the Spanish
call “El Draco”?
9. Which playwright, possibly a spy,
was killed in a tavern brawl?
10. Wolves still roamed parts of
England during Tudor times.
True or False?
11. What food was illegal to eat
on a Friday?
12. At 11 in the morning in
Tudor schools, what could
children expect?
13. Elizabeth of England and Mary
of Scotland were first cousins.
True or False?
14. Which German artist was a famous
painter in Tudor England?
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QUIZ 9
HISTORY
15. Which Tudor monarch ruled for just
nine days?
16. At the beginning of the Tudor
dynasty, which event in 1486 united
the rival Houses of Lancaster
and York?
17. William Shakespeare once met
Henry VIII. True or False?
18. Who were King Edward VI’s parents?
19. What were the people who stood at
the front of an Elizabethan theater
known as?
20. Whom did Queen Mary I marry?
21. The Tudor rose was a combination
of the York and Lancaster roses.
True or False?
22. Tudors only ate with a fork.
True or False?
23. How many times did
Elizabeth I marry?
24. By tradition, what is Sir Walter
Raleigh credited with bringing
from the Americas?
25. How did Elizabethan theaters
indicate that a play was going
to be performed?
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 QUIZ 10
HISTORY
Famous People In History
1. Which English king had six wives?
2. Who wrote the plays Romeo
and Juliet and A Midsummer
Night’s Dream?
3. Who was the first female prime
minister of Britain?
4. Who developed a system of raised
dots to help blind people to read
using their sense of touch?
5. Which queen ruled England at the
time of the Spanish Armada?
6. Which author wrote about Fagin and
his gang of child thieves?
7. The Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten
had a beautiful wife whose sandstone
bust has made her image famous.
Her name was… ?
8. Who was Britain’s prime minister
throughout the majority of World
War II?
9. Who wrote a diary describing life
in London at the time of the plague in
1665 and the Great Fire in 1666?
10. Which king was believed to live
at Camelot?
11. Who was the first president of the
United States?
12. Florence Nightingale was named
after the city where she was born.
True or False?
13. Who was the warrior queen
in Britain who fought against
the Romans?
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14. What did Guy Fawkes try to do?
15. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
16. Which philosopher famously said,
“I think, therefore I am”?
17. Who became known as “Buddha”?
18. Buzz Aldrin was the second man to
step on the moon. True or False?
19. Who lived in a secret room in
Amsterdam because her family
needed to hide from the Nazis?
20. Who was the first European to view
the Victoria Falls?
21. Who is the only English monarch
to have been beheaded?
22. Who led the Bolshevik Revolution
in Russia in 1917?
23. Who led the first British expedition
to reach the South Pole?
24. Who led the French resistance to
the English invasion in the Hundred
Years’ War?
25. Who devoted her life to helping the
poor and sick in Kolkata, India?
 EASY
Essential World War I
1. What was a Dreadnought?
2. Which two countries signed
the Entente Cordiale?
3. In which year did World War I begin?
4. Whose assassination in Sarajevo
in 1914 led to military mobilization
and the outbreak of the war?
5. On which front did most of
the fighting take place during
World War I?
6. Which country left the war after
a revolution in 1917?
7. Who was king of Great Britain
during World War I?
8. What was the name of the
earthworks that stretched all the
way from the English Channel to
Switzerland throughout the war?
9. What was the complaint suffered
by many soldiers because of wet
conditions in the trenches?
10. Turkey was an ally of which country:
Britain or Germany?
11. What was the new weapon
first developed by the British
that changed the course of
land warfare?
12. Which 1916 battle is usually
considered to be the worst disaster
in British military history due to
the huge loss of life?
13. Why did Britain declare war
on Germany?
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QUIZ 11
HISTORY
14. Who was the famous German
fighter ace whose “Flying Circus”
unit terrorized Allied pilots?
15. What was the name of the only
major naval battle of World War I?
16. What was the role of a sapper?
17. What was No Man’s Land?
18. Which country joined the British
and French in 1917? The huge
resources of this nation helped to
end the war within a year.
19. What was the Armistice?
20. In which year did World War I end?
21. How many horses were involved
in the war?
22. What were the enormous German
airships that carried out bombing
raids on Britain called?
23. World War I pilots did not carry
parachutes. True or False?
24. Troops from which country were
led by General Pershing?
25. How old was the youngest
British soldier to fight in the war:
12, 13, 14?
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 QUIZ 12
HISTORY
Living in Ancient Greece
1. What name describes
the government of the first
Greek city-states: oligarchy,
monarchy, hierarchy?
2. What was a polis: police force,
temple, or city-state?
3. Which Greek mathematician laid
the foundations of geometry in his
treatise called The Elements?
4. Ur was a Greek city-state.
True or False?
5. What was the name of the main
marketplace in a city-state of
ancient Greece?
6. What activities took place in
the gymnasium?
7. What was to be found in the
Sanctuary of Athena at Delphi?
8. What was the original purpose
of the Parthenon in Athens?
9. Which of the city-states
was famed for its army and
military training?
10. With which areas of knowledge is
Aristotle principally associated?
11. Name the general who spread
Greek culture via his conquests
across the Middle East.
12. After which famous battle did a
messenger run himself to death
bringing news of a Greek victory?
13. Which city-state is considered to
be the birthplace of democracy?
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14. What was a chiton in
ancient Greece?
15. Who wrote The Odyssey?
16. Between which city-states was
the Peloponnesian War fought?
17. Which mathematician is famous
for a law about right angles?
18. Where did ancient Greeks believe
that their gods lived?
19. In whose honor were the
original Olympic Games held
near Mount Olympus?
20. Where would you expect to
have found hoplites, peltasts,
and phalanxes?
21. Both men and women could be
full citizens in ancient Greece.
True or False?
22. Which materials were used
to build most houses in
ancient Greece?
23. What did performers wear in
ancient Greek theaters?
24. What first took place in 776 bce?
25. Ancient Greeks believed the gods
and goddesses had human qualities.
True or False?
 EASY QUIZ 13

HISTORY
Britons and Invaders

1. In which country is the 5,000-year- 13. Which parts of the British Isles not
old Stone Age passage tomb conquered by the Romans later were
of Newgrange? settled by the Vikings?

2. Modern humans first came to 14. Who is usually credited with

Britain around 40,000 bce. converting Ireland to Christianity?
True or False?
15. Which groups of people invaded
3. What metal was introduced into Britain after the Romans withdrew
Britain around 4000 bce? their legions?

4. Why were the Beaker People 16. What is the name of the earthwork
who arrived in 2400 bce given built by a Saxon king of Mercia to
this name? prevent a Welsh invasion?

5. Name the most famous prehistoric
monument that comprises rings
of standing stones.
6. Around 800 bce, a new metal
began to be widely used in
Britain. What was it?
7. What type of Iron Age defended
settlement was Maiden Castle?
8. Which Roman general
attempted an invasion of
Britain in 55 and 54 bce?
17. What was the Danelaw?
18. From where in Europe did Viking
raiders and settlers originate?
19. Which Anglo-Saxon king
successfully stood up to the
Viking invaders?
20. Who were the last people to
successfully invade Britain,
in 1066?

9. Name the Roman emperor

who succeeded in conquering
parts of Britain in 43 ce.

10. By what name is the

Roman defensive line across
north Britain dating from
122 ce known?

11. Who was the leader of the Iceni

who rebelled against Roman rule?

12. What place-name evidence today

suggests that a modern town was
once a Roman fort?

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 QUIZ 14
HISTORY
Great Leaders
1. George Washington was the first
US president. True or False?
2. Which powerful military leader first
established the Mongol Empire?
3. Who became the Prussian prime
minister in 1862?
4. What was Mussolini’s first name?
5. Which great leader rose to power
during the French Revolution and
later crowned himself the first
emperor of France?
6. Who led the Muslim forces against
the European crusaders?
7. Which Roman leader was the first
to have his own image on a coin?
8. Which US president created the
“New Deal”?
9. In which year did Margaret
Thatcher become the prime
minister of Great Britain?
10. Alexander the Great was
Macedonian. True or False?
11. Which king led Scottish forces at
the Battle of Bannockburn?
12. Which Indian lawyer led a
successful nonviolent campaign
for India’s independence from
British rule?
13. Who led the campaign to unify
Italy in the 1860s?
14. Who led the Chinese Revolution
of 1949?
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15. Where was William the
Conqueror born?
16. Richard I, king of England,
spoke French better than English.
True or False?
17. Schloss Bellevue is the official
home of which country’s president?
18. Anwar Sadat was president of
which country?
19. There is a famous memorial to
four US presidents on Mount… ?
20. In which city is the
Lincoln Memorial?
21. What is the Duke of Wellington
most famous for?
22. What did Nelson Mandela achieve
in 1994?
23. Who led British and Allied forces
to victory at Alamein in 1942?
24. Which empress enlarged and
strengthened the Russian empire
and was the country’s
longest-ruling female leader?
25. Who was the leader of Parliament’s
forces, known as “Roundheads,”
at the Battle of Naseby in 1645?
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HISTORY
The Russian Revolution

1. In which year did the Russian
Revolution begin?
2. What was the name of the
political group led by Lenin in
the October Revolution?
3. Which Russian leader was executed
on July 16, 1918?
13. What did the name “Stalin” mean?
14. What is the modern name for the
city of Petrograd where food riots
broke out?
15. Leon Trotsky said that socialism in
Russia could not be realized without
a world revolution. True or False?

4. What did the Bolshevik militias turn
into during the Russian Revolution?
5. Who succeeded Czar Nicholas II
of Russia in 1917?
6. Which Russian revolutionary
leader wrote a book in 1899 titled
The Development of Capitalism
in Russia?
7. Which battleship became an icon
of revolution after a 1905 mutiny?
8. What was the name of the anti-
communist forces who fought the
Red Army during the revolution?
9. Name the founder of the Red
Army who was assassinated in
Mexico in 1940.
16. Lenin wrote his book State and
Revolution in which country:
Sweden, Russia, Finland?
17. Who became the Russian prime
minister in 1917 and tried to
arrest Lenin?
18. In which country was there a
knock-on revolution during
1918–1919, as a result of the
Russian Revolution?
19. Who became leader of the USSR
following Lenin’s death in 1924?
20. The remains of executed
Czar Nicholas II and his family
were discovered in the 1970s.
True or False?

10. How was revolutionary leader

Leon Trotsky killed?

11. What term describes the

mass arrests, executions, and
atrocities conducted by the
Bolshevik government,
announced in 1918?

12. What was the Russian Revolution’s

term for combining the country’s
agricultural land for shared ownership
by the country’s peasants?

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HISTORY
The Victorians
1. Who was Queen Victoria
married to?
2. Queen Victoria was the last of
which dynasty?
3. What 1840 innovation is associated
with Rowland Hill?
4. What was the color of the first
postage stamp?
5. What does Boer, as in “Boer
War,” mean?
6. What did the Chartists campaign
for from the 1830s to the 1850s?
7. Which country gained dominion
status from the British Empire
in 1867?
8. What famous waterway opened
in 1869?
9. Who developed the Suez Canal?
10. Robert Peel repealed which laws
in 1846?
11. Some Victorian pillar boxes have
the initials “VR” on them. What
do these initials stand for?
12. The Great Exhibition of 1851 was
held in a converted railway station.
True or False?
13. The Crystal Palace was moved in
1854 to which London suburb?
14. In which part of the British Isles
did many thousands die in the
1845–1851 potato famine?
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15. How many times was William
Gladstone prime minister?
16. Who was William Gladstone’s great
Tory rival in the 1870s?
17. Who wrote The Book of Household
Management in 1861 with recipes
and advice for young wives?
18. Which political theorist moved to
London in 1849?
19. The Clifton Suspension Bridge was
designed by which engineer?
20. The monument dedicated to Prince
Albert lies near which London park?
21. Who was the Victorian pioneer
of nursing?
22. Which three sisters in this era wrote
novels that have become classics?
23. Name the naturalist who wrote
On the Origin of Species.
24. During this era, where were
people who were poor and unable
to work because of sickness or
old age housed?
25. The first trains were pulled by
horses. True or False?
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HISTORY
Civil Wars

1. Who led the Parliamentarian forces
during the English Civil War?
2. In which year did the southern states
split from the American Union?
14. Who did the Cavaliers fight for?
15. What was the nickname
of Confederate General
Thomas Jackson?

3. Why were supporters of Oliver
Cromwell sometimes known
as “Roundheads”?
4. What name was given to the
reformed Parliamentarian forces?
16. With which civil war is the
abolitionist John Brown associated?
17. The Battle of the Bulge was an
American Civil War battle.
True or False?

5. Who led the Nationalist forces in
the Spanish Civil War?
6. Which battle is regarded as the
turning point in the American
Civil War?
18. What was the name of General
Lee’s horse that he used for most
of the American Civil War?
19. Which Union military commander
became US president in 1869?

7. What name did the monarchs 20. Which US president was

of the English Civil War share? assassinated in 1865?

8. Name the capital of Bosnia,

besieged during the Yugoslavian
Civil War.

9. Which war in Southeast Asia began

as an anti-colonial struggle and
eventually drew in the United States?

10. When did the English Civil

War begin?

11. Who was the leader of Yugoslavia

who unified the country after
World War II?

12. Which were the opposing sides in

the Wars of the Roses?

13. The Battle of Edgehill in the English

Civil War ended in a draw. True
or False?

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HISTORY
Empires
1. Where did the Ottoman
Empire originate?
2. In which part of the world was
the Mayan Empire: Africa, India,
Central America?
3. Which ancient empire was governed
by provincial governors called satraps?
4. Which 1997 event has been said
to mark the final curtain for the
British Empire?
5. The Byzantine Empire is also
known as the what?
6. In which empire did the Eighteenth
Dynasty usher in its New Kingdom?
7. The Gupta Empire is associated
with which country?
8. In which empire did the shogun
rule from the city of Edo?
9. Who founded the Macedonian
Empire in 334 bce?
10. The Ptolemaic Dynasty is most
associated with which empire?
11. When did the Ottoman Empire
finally end, 623 years after it
was formed?
12. The Mongol Empire began under
which leader?
13. Remains of the Hittite Empire
would be best seen in which
modern-day country?
14. Who was the first Roman leader
to be proclaimed emperor?
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15. The Chinese Ming Dynasty began
in which century ce?
16. Sargon the Great ruled over which
empire in the 24th century bce?
17. Tenochtitlan was the capital city
of which empire?
18. Aqueducts provided fresh water
to people in Roman cities. True
or False?
19. Beginning in 1922, for how many
years did the Soviet Empire last?
20. Which of these African cities was
within the Songhai Empire:
Timbuktu, Cairo, Lusaka?
21. Hammurabi, the sixth king of the
Babylon Dynasty, is best known
for creating what?
22. Which empire was founded by a
warrior named Babur in 1526?
23. Who was the ruler when the
Ottoman Empire reached the height
of its power in the 16th century?
24. Who established his empire first:
Cyrus the Great, Charlemagne, or
Genghis Khan?
25. The capital of the Byzantine
Empire was… ?
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Plague and Pestilence
1. The Black Death reputedly first
reached Europe in which modern-
day country?
2. What disease was identified in the
mummified remains of Pharaoh
Ramesses V?
3. Hong Kong was struck by which
virus in 2003?
4. Which Greek city suffered a
devastating plague in 430–429 bce?
5. Approximately how many
Europeans died from the plague
during the Black Death?
6. What percentage of the European
population died from the plague
during the 14th century?
7. The term “Black Death” arose
because all victims died at night.
True or False?
8. Which form of the Black Death
plague was spread via air
and inhaled?
9. King Charles II chose to stay in
London during the Great Plague
of 1665–1666. True or False?
10. The Lord Mayor of London
ordered the extermination of
which animals to combat the
Great Plague?
11. What was the name of the
Derbyshire village that sacrificed
itself to halt the spread of plague?
12. The Spanish flu originated in Spain.
True or False?
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HISTORY
13. Use of sheep and horse hair
increased the incidence of which
disease in the 18th century?
14. What was the name of the 19th-
century doctor who pioneered
the use of clean water to prevent
cholera in London?
15. How long did the Justinian plague
that ravaged much of the Roman
Empire last?
16. Where do historians think the
plague originated?
17. Which disease numbered among its
victims the gangster Al Capone?
18. Homes of medieval plague victims
were branded with red crosses.
True or False?
19. When did the Black Death first
arrive in England?
20. Queen Elizabeth I caught and
survived smallpox. True or False?
21. What were buboes?
22. Smallpox is caused by a virus.
True or False?
23. Do male mosquitos spread malaria?
24. Where in the world did the first
cholera pandemic begin in the
19th century?
25. Which disease killed 20 to 25
percent of the Inca population?
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HISTORY

Historical Sports

1. What is the name of the 3,000-year-
old Gaelic sport played with a stick
and a ball?
2. Where was the ancient rugbylike
ball game of harpastum played:
China, Rome, Mexico?
3. The game of rugby was based
on an ancient Greek sport called
“Episkyros.” True or False?
4. What is considered to be the oldest
historical sport?
5. What were winners of ancient
Olympics crowned with?
6. In which country did the equestrian
sport of polo originate?
20. Married women were not allowed to
7. Bull-leaping is associated with
which ancient civilization?
14. In what sport did James Figg
become British champion in 1719?
15. Who lost to Muhammad Ali in
the “Thrilla in Manila” world title
bout in 1975?
16. Cricket can be traced back to which
period of English history?
17. Choule was an ancient stick and
ball game, roughly akin to what?
18. During which century did soccer
begin to spread from England to
the rest of the world?
19. When were the rules of baseball
first codified in the US?
watch or take part in the ancient
Olympic Games. True or False?

8. In which year were the first

Olympic Games held?

9. What form of clothing did

ancient Olympians wear?

10. During which Roman ceremonies

were the first gladiator fights
believed to have been held?

11. How many people could the

Colosseum in Rome hold to
watch gladiator fights?

12. Where were the ancient Roman

chariot races held?

13. Where have some of the oldest

images associated with boxing
been discovered?

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Highwaymen
1. Complete this highwayman’s
saying: “Your money or your… ?
2. In Britain, robbery with violence
was punishable by death. How were
most captured highwaymen executed?
3. What is the name of the hat
commonly associated with
highwaymen?
4. When was the last recorded
horseback robbery in Britain?
5. “Bushrangers” is the name for
highwaymen in which country?
6. Which bushranger is famous
for wearing a suit of homemade
armor to protect him from bullets?
7. In which century was Dick
Turpin active?
8. Immortalized in fiction, by what
name is his horse popularly known?
9. Which dog breed was commonly
used as “coach dogs” for show and
even to ward off highwaymen?
10. Which ballad opera by John Gay
features highwayman Captain
Macheath as its hero?
11. What was the name of the type of
cheap 19th-century publication
of serialized stories that often
featured tales of highwaymen?
12. Who wrote the popular narrative
poem “The Highwayman” about a
highwayman’s love for “Bess, the
landlord’s daughter”?
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QUIZ 21
HISTORY
13. The name for an unmounted
roadside robber was a “Footpad.”
True or False?
14. Which British band had a
hit with “Stand and Deliver”
in 1981, with a music video
featuring the lead singer dressed
as a highwayman?
15. John “Swift Nick” Nevison was
supposedly given his nickname
by which monarch, after a 200-mile
(320-km) dash from Kent to York
to fake an alibi?
16. Now partly buried beneath
Heathrow Airport’s runways,
which patch of land was a
notorious highwayman haunt
in the 17th and 18th centuries?
17. What was the main reason for the
sharp decline in highway robberies
in Britain after 1763?
18. Who was the “gentleman
highwayman,” known for his
gallant behavior, fashionable
clothes, and avoidance of violence?
19. The “Tyburn Tree,” a set of
gallows where many highwaymen
were hanged and left on display,
stood near which present-day
London location?
20. Where was Dick Turpin hanged
in 1739?
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HISTORY

Famous Ships

1. In Herman Melville’s book 15. Who sailed the HMS Endeavour

Moby-Dick, what is the name
of Captain Ahab’s ship?
2. What event made the HMS Bounty
famous in the history of seafaring?
3. Which side of a boat is
the starboard?
4. What was the name of the ship that
first took British explorer Ernest
Shackleton to the Antarctic?
5. Who sailed the ship known as
the Santa Maria?
6. Name the ship that took the Pilgrim
Fathers to America in 1620.
7. Which US ship is nicknamed
“Old Ironsides”?
8. What is the name of the record-
breaking tea clipper now preserved
at Greenwich in London?
9. What was the name of the famous
German battleship that was sunk
in 1941?
on his first voyage of exploration?
16. Why is the US battleship Missouri
particularly remembered?
17. The back of a ship is called the bow.
True or False?
18. Which famous explorer was the
captain of the Golden Hind?
19. What was the name of the ship
that rescued the survivors of the
RMS Titanic?
20. What type of ship was the
Exxon Valdez?
21. What was the name of Fulton’s
pioneer submersible of 1801?
22. The Kon-Tiki was sailed by which
famous explorer?
23. Which organization is known for
its ship called Rainbow Warrior?
24. Which ship is the subject of a
famous painting by J. M. W. Turner?

10. What was the name of the world’s 25. Which ship was found sailing
first battle cruiser? but deserted in the Atlantic
Ocean in 1872?
11. Who captained the Jolly Roger?

12. The world’s first nuclear-powered

submarine was called the USS
Nautilus. True or False?

13. In Greek mythology, what was

the name of Jason’s ship?

14. Who was the captain of the

RMS Titanic?

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Olympic Sports from the Past
1. What was the ancient Olympic sport
of pankration?
2. Which track-and-field athletics event
comprises a hop, a stride, and a jump?
3. What did athletes have to carry
in each hand during the ancient
Olympic event of jumping?
4. The ancient Olympic Games did
not feature a marathon. When
did the event become a part of
the modern Olympics?
5. Cricket was only played once
as an Olympic sport—in 1900,
between England and France.
Which team won?
6. Chariot races were included in the
ancient Olympics. True or False?
7. Jeu de paume (real tennis) appeared
twice as a modern Olympic
demonstration sport. How many
times was it played as a competitive
Olympic event?
8. Golf appeared as an Olympic event
during the 2016 Games. When was
it previously played at the Olympics?
9. In which year did rackets make
its first and last appearance as
an Olympic event?
10. The discus was originally made
of stone and later of iron, lead, or
bronze. True or False?
11. Polo was played at six consecutive
modern Olympic Games. In
which year did it first appear on
the program?
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HISTORY
12. An ancient Olympic race was
for chariots pulled by mules.
True or False?
13. What is the oldest Olympic sport?
14. In whose honor were the ancient
Olympic Games held?
15. After appearing as a competitive
sport at the 1904 and 1908
Olympics, when was lacrosse once
again played at the Olympics, this
time as a demonstration sport?
16. In which year did the first separate
Winter Games take place?
17. In 1900, which two sports included
women competitors for the first
time at the Olympic Games?
18. Which events did Jim Thorpe
win at the 1912 Games, only to
lose his medals on the grounds
of ineligibility?
19. In ancient Greece, what kind of
Olympic sport was pále¯ ?
20. Rugby was played at four modern
Olympic Games before being
dropped. In what form did the
game return in 2016?
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HISTORY

Gunmen of the Old West

1. Who manufactured the single-action 14. For which gunfight is Tombstone,

.44 and .45 revolvers favored by
most Wild West gunmen?
2. Which gunman shot between 14
and 50 men and boasted he’d “shoot
anyone for a fee”?
3. Bill Dalton and Bull Doolin led
which 1890s outlaw gang?
4. What was the alternative occupation
of Wild West gunman Doc Holliday?
5. What was Billy the Kid’s real name?
Arizona, best known?
15. Phoebe Annie Moses is better
known as… ?
16. Which Wild West gunman was
easily identified by his green-
banded sombrero?
17. Who committed the first bank
robbery in the US?
18. Which sheriff shot and killed
Billy the Kid in 1881?

6. Which gunman of the Old West shot 19. How did Buffalo Bill get
a man for “snoring too loud”? his nickname?

7. Which Wild West gunman had
blond curly hair, spoke in a high-
pitched voice, and wore frilly shirts?
8. Where did feuding gunmen Frank
Loving and Levi Richardson have
a famous shoot-out?
9. Which Earp was the town marshal
of Tombstone at the time of the
O. K. Corral shoot-out: Wyatt,
Virgil, Morgan?
10. Robert Leroy Parker and
Henry Longabaugh were
better known as… ?
20. With which gang is “bandit queen”
Belle Starr most associated?
21. In Dodge City, who had a
showdown with Wyatt Earp?
22. Which gunfighter’s death in 1882
looked like suicide?
23. By which name is Martha Jane
Cannaray best known?
24. Who killed Jesse James?
25. How old was Billy the Kid when
he killed his first man?

11. What name was given to the

burial grounds of gunfighters?

12. What did Wild West gunmen

commonly call their single-
action revolvers?

13. Which gun is often known as

“The gun that won the West”?

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Roman Gladiators
1. Which Roman emperor would
dress as Hercules and fight in
the Colosseum?
2. Early gladiator fights performed
at Roman funerals were called… ?
3. Which type of gladiator would
hunt down wild animals in
the arena?
4. Criminals without gladiatorial
training who fought blindfolded
on horseback were called… ?
5. What kind of gladiator was
a rudiarius?
6. This gladiator would finish
off mortally wounded gladiators
in the arena. As whom was he
dressed up?
7. During a day at the Colosseum,
when would the gladiator
fights begin?
8. What lunchtime entertainment
would precede the gladiator fights
at the Colosseum?
9. For how many days in a row did
Emperor Trajan hold gladiatorial
games after conquering Dacia?
10. How many gladiators died in the
games held by Emperor Trajan after
his conquest of Dacia?
11. What did the crowd chant if they
wanted a gladiator to be granted
a reprieve after fighting?
12. How long was the average gladiator
fight thought to have lasted?
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HISTORY
13. There was no such thing as a female
gladiator. True or False?
14. How many trapdoors were there
in the Colosseum floor to bring
up animals, gladiators, and pieces
of scenery?
15. What would take place in front
of the crowd before the gladiators
of the Colosseum fought?
16. Where was the homeland of the
slave gladiator Spartacus?
17. Which type of gladiator would a
secutor traditionally fight?
18. What was a Roman gladiator
school called?
19. Senator Titus Statilius Taurus
erected the first stone amphitheater
for gladiator fights in Rome. True
or False?
20. Which Roman emperor was said to
like watching the expressions of the
gladiators as they died?
21. Some gladiators fought from
chariots. True or False?
22. How did Equites fight in
gladiatorial contests?
23. Emperor Septimius Severus banned
women from gladiatorial contests in
200 ce. True or False?
24. What food did gladiators eat?
25. What kind of swords did
trainees use?
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HISTORY
Medieval Tournaments
1. Early medieval tournaments
were bloody free-for-all brawls
known as… ?
2. Which medieval tournament
regular was once called “the
greatest knight who ever lived”?
3. What was the “recess” at a
medieval tournament?
4. At a medieval tournament,
what was a joust à l’outrance?
5. The couched lance was
new in which century: 10th,
11th, 12th?
6. What was the revolving target
used by knights to practice for
medieval tournaments?
7. Tournaments were held regularly
in Greece. True or False?
8. Which pope issued an edict in
1130 that any knight killed at a
tournament would be denied his
funeral rights?
9. Which English county was not
authorized by King Richard I to
hold a medieval tournament
under royal license?
10. Which French poet wrote about
chivalric themes and so influenced
medieval tournaments?
11. In later medieval tournaments, why
were coronels fitted to lances?
12. In the 14th century, knights who
had taken part in what could not
participate in tournaments?
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13. From the 14th century, for a knight
to participate, how many generations
did he have to prove that his family
had been fighting in tournaments?
14. In France, violent tournaments
were gradually replaced by a
choreographed “carousel.”
True or False?
15. On what occasion would a medieval
tournament often be held?
16. Which king issued a charter to
stop knights from misbehaving
on their way to tournaments?
17. In France, women sometimes
fought in their own tournaments.
True or False?
18. What did melee combatants
try to do?
19. In which year did Pope
John XXII lift the papal ban
on medieval tournaments?
20. What weapons were used at a joust
à plaisance, that is, “for pleasure”?
21. In jousting, what was the fence that
separated the knights called?
22. What was an ecranche?
23. How long was a typical lance?
24. Tournaments were part of
competitions called “hastiludes.”
True or False?
25. Which king was killed in a
jousting competition?
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Sea Battles
1. Why were fire arrows dangerous
in the Age of Sail?
2. What was the name given to
Venetian ships that used sails
and oars but were floating
gun platforms?
3. Who invented the
self-propelled torpedo?
4. In the Age of Sail, what was
the definition of a battleship?
5. What missiles from French
suppliers did the Argentines use
against British ships in 1982?
6. What much-feared weapon of
war, deadly to ships, was reputedly
invented by an engineer named
Callanicus in Constantinople
in 670 ce?
7. What unusual tactics did
Nelson employ at the Battle
of Trafalgar?
20. What name was given to the
8. What was the Fairey Swordfish?
9. What name is given to the rear
mast of a galleon?
10. How many guns did a “Third
Rate” man-of-war have in the
18th-century British navy?
11. Why was a trireme, used by
ancient Romans and Greeks
among others, so called?
12. What was significant about the
speedy vessel demonstrated
to the British navy by Charles
Parsons in 1897?
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HISTORY
13. What name was given to disguised
armed ships that were used by the
British against German U-boats in
World War I?
14. What were the largest naval guns
in use in the 20th century?
15. What name was given to groups of
attacking U-boats in World War II?
16. What was the name “destroyer”
for a type of ship short for?
17. What is the range of a Trident
ballistic missile fired from
a submarine: 5,000 miles,
7,000 miles, 10,000 miles?
18. What powered U-boats when
moving under water during
World War II?
19. What did the phrase “holding
the weather gage” mean in the
Age of Sail?
simultaneous firing of all
the cannons on one side of
a man-of-war?
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Commanders
1. Who led the Prussian forces to
victory in the Franco-Prussian
War in 1870–1871?
2. Which Egyptian pharaoh defeated
the Hittites in the Battle of Kadesh?
3. Which Carthaginian general won
the battle of Cannae and is known
for taking elephants across the Alps?
4. Which Roman general crushed the
slave revolt led by Spartacus but was
later killed at the Battle of Carrhae?
5. Who commanded the US forces in
Vietnam from 1964 to 1968?
6. What two major injuries did
Admiral Nelson receive during
his career?
7. Which Chinese emperor, notably
successful as a war leader, was
buried with a terra-cotta army
in his mausoleum?
8. Who was the Byzantine general who
recaptured Italy from the Ostrogoths
and protected Constantinople from
the Huns?
9. Who was the 9th-century-ce
Frankish king who established an
empire that stretched from northern
Europe to Italy and Spain?
10. Which Norman duke’s victory over
Harold II in Sussex won him the
crown of England?
11. Which king of England was known
as “Richard the Lionheart” because
of his leadership during the
Third Crusade?
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12. Who was the British hero of Atbara,
Omdurman, and Paardeberg whose
image appeared on recruitment
posters in 1914?
13. Who was the 13th-century- ce
Mongol khan who conquered an
area from China to the Black Sea?
14. Which English king subdued Wales
and Scotland and defeated the
French at the Battle of Crécy?
15. Sir John Jellicoe commanded the
British fleet at the Battle of Jutland.
True or False?
16. Who was responsible for the
planning and organization of
the New Model Army during the
English Civil War?
17. Which commander led his troops
to victory at the Battle of Blenheim
in 1704?
18. Which British military commander
was responsible for victories at
Arcot and Plassey?
19. Which German general
commanded the Western Front
armies on D-Day in 1944?
20. Who commanded the Confederate
Army in the American Civil War?
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HISTORY
Scottish History

1. Which historic declaration was 15. Who was Robert Burns?

signed in 1320?
2. Who led the Scottish Army at the
Battle of Bannockburn in 1314?
3. What was King James II of
Scotland known as?
4. What is the national flower
of Scotland?
16. What does the term “Picts” mean?
17. Who were Burke and Hare in
Edinburgh in the early 19th century?
18. Who was the first husband of Mary,
Queen of Scots?
19. What does “Holyrood” mean?

5. Rob Roy is sometimes known 20. When is “Burns Night” or “Burns

as the Scottish Robin Hood. Supper” celebrated?
True or False?
21. Who was known as “the
6. Macbeth wasn’t actually a real Old Pretender”?
Scottish king. True or False?
22. What were the Scots banned
7. The “Auld Alliance” was between from wearing after the Battle
which two nations? of Culloden?

8. When was Scotland formally united
with England to form Great Britain?
9. Which Scottish railway station
is named after a book by Sir
Walter Scott?
10. Who led the Jacobite Uprising
in 1745?
23. Who built Edinburgh Castle?
24. Why is Aberdeen known as the
Granite City?
25. What color is the flag of
St. Andrew, the patron saint
of Scotland?

11. Victims of the Massacre of Glencoe

belonged to which Scottish clan?

12. Mary, Queen of Scots, was

executed after being imprisoned.
Where did she die?

13. Which battle was led and won by

William Wallace in 1297?

14. The Battle of Flodden Field

saw the defeat and killing of
which monarch?

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HISTORY

The Suffragist Movement

1. Which country was the first to give 13. Which English newspaper coined
women the right to vote? the term “suffragette”?

2. In what year were they given 14. When did Saudi women get the
this right? right to vote?

3. In what year were English women
over 30 given the right to vote?
4. Women in the US were allowed
to vote in presidential elections
from… ?
15. The US National Woman’s Party
is still fighting for equal rights for
women. True or False?
16. Many English suffragists performed
what form of protest in prison?

5. What was the name of the famous
suffragist who died by throwing
herself under the king’s horse in 1913?
6. Sylvia and Christabel were
daughters of which famous
British suffragist?
17. As a result of their protest in prison,
many English suffragists were
force-fed through tubes stuck
down their throats. True or False?
18. What did the Cat and Mouse Act
of 1913 allow?

7. What does the word
“suffrage” mean?
8. A slogan on a suffragist women’s
newspaper read: “Men, their rights,
and nothing more; women, their
rights, and nothing less.” True
or False?
9. What conflict showed that
women were more than capable
of performing in traditional
male roles?
19. Some men argued that women
should not have the right to vote
because they were too emotional
and could not think as logically
as men. True or False?
20. In which year was the right
to vote extended to all UK women
over the age of 21?

10. Militant suffragists from which

country inspired suffragists in
the US?

11. Which was the last European

country to grant women the
right to vote?

12. In which year were they given

the right to vote?

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 D I F F I C U LT
Architecture through the Ages
1. What is the name for the area in
the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral,
257 steps above the main floor?
2. Which capital city has a name
meaning “Place of the Gods”
and is the ancestral home of
the Dalai Lama?
3. One of the earliest Christian
settlements is at Qadisha. In
which country is Qadisha?
4. Which city developed on the site of
the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán?
5. In which country is the ancient
ruined city of Petra, the “rose-red
city half as old as time”?
6. The Golden Temple at Amritsar
in India is a sacred shrine
associated with which religion?
7. Which “lost city” was rediscovered by
the American Hiram Bingham in 1911?
8. Which New York City skyscraper is
famous for its art deco style?
9. This bridge is nicknamed “the Coat
Hanger” due to its arched design.
10. The Grand Mosque at Djenné in
Mali is the largest building in the
world made of which material?
11. Which building was erected to
commemorate the Great Fire
of London?
12. Which art gallery in Paris was
designed by the architect Richard
Rogers and has all the pipes on
the outside of the building?
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HISTORY
13. What is the name of the bridge
connecting the Petronas Towers
in Kuala Lumpur?
14. After which saint is the cathedral
in Moscow’s Red Square named?
15. One of the largest buildings in
the US is the VAB, or Vehicle
Assembly Building, operated
by which organization?
16. Which famous structure, built in
1889, was originally only supposed
to stand for 20 years?
17. What was the original purpose of
the Taj Mahal when it was built?
18. The Royal Albert Hall in London is
a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
True or False?
19. With which Spanish city is Antoni
Gaudí associated?
20. The Great Pyramid holds the burial
chamber for which pharaoh, also
known as Khufu?
21. Which skyscraper, then the world’s
tallest, was climbed by King Kong?
22. In what architectural style was the
Temple of Athena constructed?
23. What materials are most of the
buildings in Timbuktu made of?
24. What types of rock did the Incas
use to build their cities?
25. About 95 percent of the materials
used to build the Shard in London
are recycled. True or False?
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Ancient Civilizations

1. Who was the first emperor 17. Which ancient Greek philosopher
of Rome? died after drinking hemlock?

2. What is the Great Sphinx of Giza?
3. Who was the god of the sea in
ancient Greece?
4. What were aqueducts used for?
5. Who was the god of the sun in
ancient Egypt?
6. What type of gladiator fought with
a net and a trident?
7. Which Greek physician devised the
“four humors” theory in medicine?
8. Which king built the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon?
18. The famous “300 Spartans” fought
at which battle?
19. Which Roman emperor ordered the
invasion of Britain in 43 ce?
20. From which ancient civilization did
the word “theater” originate?
21. Which sport was the most popular
in the Mayan civilization?
22. What is the Kingdom of Benin
most famous for?
23. Ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut
is shown on official art wearing a
beard. True or False?

9. From which ancient civilization
did Hippocrates come?
10. What was the Roman name for
the English town of Bath?
11. What was papyrus used to make
in ancient Egypt?
24. Why did the ancient Romans
sometimes flood the Colosseum
or the Circus Maximus?
25. What medical technique did the
Incas use to relieve pressure in the
head and also to release demons?

12. What was a “ziggurat” in Babylon?

13. What was the name of the

famous slave who led a revolt
against Rome?

14. What is considered to be the

“cradle” of Chinese civilization?

15. Where is the Valley of the Kings?

16. Which army used the “testudo” as

a military ploy?

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HISTORY
Royals and Others

1. Which queen of England allegedly 13. Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh,

had six fingers on her right hand? was born on which Greek island?

2. Pope John Paul II was Polish.
Who, more than 400 years
earlier, had been the previous
non-Italian pontiff?
3. Which former ruler of England
ended his days wandering around
Europe under various aliases?
4. Which queen was the mother of
both King John and King Richard I?
5. Who, in 1301, became the first
English prince of Wales?
14. Which Middle Eastern country’s
monarchy was set up in 1921?
15. What family name is shared
by the rulers of Monaco and a
famous clown?
16. King William II is the only king
of England who never married.
True or False?
17. Who, in 2001, became the first
ex-monarch to be democratically
elected as the prime minister?

6. Who was the father of James I 18. Which country’s royal house is
of England? called Orange?

7. In 1975, Juan Carlos I became
the king of Spain after a 44-year
interregnum. Who preceded him
on the throne?
8. After he was deposed, the last king
of Portugal lived out his days in
exile in England. Who was he?
19. Which king was known as the
“Prince of Whales” because of
his 54-inch (137-cm) waistline?
20. Founded, according to tradition, in
660 bce, which is the world’s oldest
continuous hereditary monarchy?

9. Who became the king of England

when he was only nine months old?

10. Who became the queen of France

in 1774 and lost her head on
the guillotine?

11. This cricket player was once

offered the throne of Albania.
Who was he?

12. Balmoral Castle is Queen

Elizabeth’s official residence
in Scotland. True or False?

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HISTORY

History Year by Year

1. In which year did the Vikings
capture the city of York in England?
2. In which year were the Knights
Templar founded in Jerusalem?
3. In which year was the Magna Carta
signed, following a brief civil war
in England?
4. In which year did Benito Mussolini
come into power in Italy?
5. In which year did King Henry IV
of England die?
6. In which year did Nicolaus
Copernicus suggest that Earth
orbits the sun and not vice versa?
7. In which year was Joan of Arc
burned as a witch?
8. In which year was the English
colony of Connecticut established
in North America?
15. In which year was the Declaration
of Independence signed in the
British American colonies?
16. In which year were the Corn Laws
abolished in Britain?
17. In which year was the attack on
Fort Sumter that started the
American Civil War?
18. In which year was the Night of the
Long Knives in Germany?
19. In which year was the Communist
Long March undertaken in China?
20. In which year was the Bloody
Sunday Massacre in the Winter
Palace in St. Petersburg?
21. In which year was there a general
strike in England?
22. In which year was the Wall
Street crash?

9. In which year did the
English playwright William
Shakespeare die?
10. In which year did the Salem witch
trials begin in New England?
23. In which year was the first
telephone call made?
24. In which year did Captain Matthew
Webb become the first person to
swim the English Channel?

11. In which year was St. Paul’s 25. When did the Great Plague of
Cathedral in London completed? London start?

12. In which year was a vaccine for

smallpox developed?

13. In which year did Marie Antoinette

marry Louis XVI in France?

14. In which year was the New York

Stock Exchange founded?

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HISTORY
Gladiators

1. On a daylong bill of bloodshed in 14. Which emperor often walked the

the Arena, when were the gladiator
fights held?
2. What was lunchtime reserved for?
3. Which type of gladiator would
have carried a heavy net and
a trident?
4. What event were the first gladiator
fights associated with?
5. What were munera in
ancient Rome?
streets of Rome with an entourage
of gladiators to help him win the
fights he picked?
15. Which emperor fought in the arena
as a gladiator?
16. The famous gladiator Flamma won
four prized yet unusual trophies.
What were they?
17. Which emperor is thought to have
enjoyed watching the expressions
of gladiators as they died?

6. Who first paid for public gladiator
fights to bolster support among the
people of Rome?
7. Who were the bestiarii?
18. Why did the Colosseum have a
sand floor?
19. In which year were the first
gladiator games held?

8. Which type of gladiator wore an 20. There was no such thing as a

oval helmet, carried a large, curved female gladiator. True or False?
rectangular shield and a short
sword, had his right arm wrapped in
leather or metal, and wore armor to
protect his lower left leg?

9. What did Emperor Augustus do

to make sure no gladiatorial games
surpassed his own?

10. How long did the games last during

the reign of Augustus?

11. What took place during the

morning’s events?

12. Who once remarked that he

wished “the Roman people had
but one neck”?

13. What type of gladiator was

a Thracian?

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HISTORY

Travel in Days Gone By

1. Which city did Marco Polo
depart from when he began
his travels to Asia?
2. The Silk Road takes its name
from the production of the fabric
in which modern-day country?
3. When did Thomas Cook organize
his first travel excursion?
4. How many days would a
stagecoach take to travel
from Edinburgh to London
in 1754 during a dry
summer month?
12. A barouche was a type of horse-
drawn carriage. True or False?
13. How many men could sail on a
Viking longship?
14. The Spice Islands were part of
which modern-day country?
15. How far east did Alexander the
Great travel to extend his empire?
16. In which year was the last
recorded robbery by a
horse-riding highwayman
in England?

5. Which kingdom did Portuguese 17. According to Julius Caesar, the

explorer Ferdinand Magellan serve?
6. The first steam railway to carry
passengers (in 1830) linked
Liverpool to which destination?
most civilized ancient Britons lived
in which modern-day county?
18. When did Lord Byron swim across
the Dardanelles?

7. The Persian Royal Road 19. Which British railway did Isambard
connected modern-day Iran Kingdom Brunel design?
to which other country?
20. In the 18th century, people in
8. The Way of St. James was a British cities could be carried
pilgrimage to a city in which in what conveyance suspended
Spanish region? on two poles?

9. What was the name given to

the journey that well-to-do
young European men took
between the 17th and
w19th centuries?

10. On which ship did Columbus

sail during his 1492 voyage to
the Americas?

11. Who wrote the 18th-century

A Tour through the Whole
Island of Great Britain?

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 D I F F I C U LT
The Aztecs
1. What modern-day country was
home to the Aztecs?
2. What did the sun transform
into at night, according to
Aztec belief?
3. What did the Aztecs ban during
sowing, harvesting, and at night?
4. What did Aztecs call gold?
5. The conquistadors came from
which European country?
6. The Aztecs developed the wheel
for use as a toy. True or False?
7. What was the Aztec city
Tenochtitlán built on?
8. The name of the goddess “Coatlicue”
translates as what?
9. What stone did the Aztecs
use to make knives, spears,
and arrowheads?
10. Tlaloc was the Aztec god of rain.
True or False?
11. What did the Aztecs use
for currency?
12. Tenochtitlán had as many as
300,000 citizens. True or False?
13. Who led the conquistadors?
14. The Aztecs thought Cortés
was a god called “Quetzalcoatl.”
True or False?
15. Name the Aztec leader defeated
by Cortés.
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HISTORY
16. Up to what percentage of the Aztecs
are believed to have succumbed
to smallpox?
17. Aztec women who died in
childbirth were accorded the same
respect as those who died in
battle. True or False?
18. What did the Aztecs use
chinampas for?
19. How did Aztec couriers travel to
relay messages?
20. Aztec society had collapsed by
the middle of which century?
21. What was the name of the last
Aztec emperor?
22. How many days are there in an
Aztec month?
23. The Aztecs drank hot chocolate.
True or False?
24. Which animal did Aztec warriors
dress up as?
25. What did the chief priest of the
Aztec god Xipe Totec wear?
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Cathedrals and Churches

1. What is the name of the Spanish 14. Which artist is responsible for
church on which construction the east doors of the baptistery
began in 1882? in Florence?

2. Who was the main architect of
Barcelona’s Sagrada Família?
3. What kind of mine is the
Cathedral of Zipaquirá in
Colombia built inside?
4. What is “the Felsenkirche” church
in Germany otherwise known as?
5. What is Lalibela in Ethiopia
famous for?
15. Borgund Stave Church was built in
the 12th century. In which country
does it stand?
16. Which London cathedral was
redesigned by Christopher Wren
following the Great Fire of London?
17. St. Paul’s received only minor
damage during the bombing of
London in World War II. True
or False?

6. In which Parisian cathedral did 18. The Mezquita of Córdoba in

Quasimodo ring his bell?
7. In which English cathedral
was Thomas Becket murdered,
probably as the result of a
misunderstanding?
8. What is the name of the onion-
domed cathedral that stands at one
end of Moscow’s Red Square?
9. Which cathedral in the English
Midlands was famously bombed
during World War II?
Spain went from being a church,
to a mosque, and back to being a
church again. True or False?
19. Which church is the long-
established location for the
crowning of English kings
and queens?
20. Christian churches and
cathedrals are traditionally
designed in what shape?

10. Which church in Venice contains

the buried remains of its namesake?

11. What church lies at the heart of the

Vatican in Rome?

12. Where were French kings

traditionally crowned?

13. Which Italian cathedral’s east

doors are called “the Gates
of Paradise”?

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 D I F F I C U LT
The American Civil War
1. Between which years was the
American Civil War fought?
2. How many men fought in the war?
3. Three hundred women dressed
up as men so they could join the
fighting. True or False?
4. How many boys under the age of 14
fought for the Union?
5. The highest number of casualties
during one battle was nearly 24,000.
What was the battle?
6. What was the first ironclad warship
to engage in the war?
7. The appearance of ironclad
warships immediately made all
existing wooden warships more
useful. True or False?
8. In which year did Congress
issue the first banknotes,
called “Greenbacks”?
9. Which Confederate private survived
capture and later undertook a search
for Dr. Livingstone?
10. What did a bounty paid to new
enlistees create large numbers of?
11. Approximately how many American
Indians fought for the Union?
12. Name the woman who nursed
wounded soldiers and founded
the American Red Cross.
13. Twice as many soldiers died from
disease than from battle injuries.
True or False?
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HISTORY
14. Approximately how many African
American men enlisted in the
Union Army?
15. In which year did the motto
“In God We Trust” first appear
on an American coin?
16. How many times a minute
could an American Civil War
musket be loaded and fired?
17. The first naval hospital ship was
the Red Rover. True or False?
18. More than 80 percent of injuries
sustained by soldiers were the a
result of artillery fire. True or False?
19. About what percentage of soldiers
wounded in the war ended up dying?
20. The number of Confederate generals
born in the North was greater than
the number of Union generals born
in the South. True or False?
21. What is the period after the
Civil War had ended called?
22. Which city in Virginia was the
Confederate capital?
23. Who was the president of the
Confederate States of America?
24. How many slave states remained
part of the Union during the
Civil War?
25. Which state did not have a battle
fought in it during the Civil War?
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HISTORY

Ancient Job Titles

1. What kind of metal was a 16. One who used to put the tap in an
“whitesmith” involved with? ale cask was known as a what?

2. What was an ancient “all spice”? 17. A bricklayer who specialized in

making and repairing sewers was
3. A goldsmith used to be known called a “sewer rat.” True or False?
as a what?
18. A “charwoman” did what job?
4. An itinerant peddler who took
his goods from town to town 19. A “flauner” used to make what?
was called a what?
20. A “snobscat” was a shoe repairer.
5. A “yeoman” referred to a farmer True or False?
who owned his own land.
True or False?

6. Originally from Córdoba in Spain,

what type of leather worker was
a “cordwainer”?

7. At one time, to seek medical

help in Europe, you would
have visited an “archiator.”
True or False?

8. “Tipstaff” referred to what?

9. A baker was sometimes known

as a baxter. True or False?

10. What did a “fletcher” make?

11. A “pettifogger” refers to a what?

12. What would you have seen

a “whitewing” doing in
medieval times?

13. What did a “jagger” peddle?

14. What was an ironworker known

as in the Middle Ages?

15. In England in the 1300s, who

was hired to wash clothes?

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 D I F F I C U LT
The Conquest of the Ocean
1. Spanish Muslims called the Nordic
Vikings al-Madjus because they
were such capable sailors. What
does this translate to?
2. The island of Greenland was
discovered by Eric the Red. Why
did he give it this name?
3. Admiral Lord Nelson died in 1805
during the Battle of Trafalgar. How
was his body preserved so he could
have a hero’s funeral upon return
to England?
4. Arab ships called dhows were made
from flexible, light woods. How
were these planks assembled?
5. Ancient Polynesian seafarers
invented the catamaran and
outrigger that are still used in
sailing today. True or False?
6. Who led the first voyage to
successfully circumnavigate
the globe?
7. What is scurvy, a common disease
on long sea journeys, caused by?
8. Where could baleen plates
be found?
9. The Great Tea Race from China to
England was won by the Ariel in
1866. It set a new record for the
15,000-miles (24,000-km) journey.
How many days did it take?
10. What were “black ships”?
11. What was a “backstaff”: a sailor’s
weapon, a grappling iron, a stern
mast, a navigation aid?
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HISTORY
12. What does the name of the famous
clipper ship Cutty Sark mean?
13. Which European explorer rounded
the Cape of Good Hope in 1497 and
sailed on to land in India?
14. The astrolabe was invented by the
ancient Greeks and refined by Arab
sailors. What is it used for?
15. A Greek galley known as a
“penteconter” required how
many oarsmen?
16. The submarine Fenian Ram was
first tested in 1881 in New York
Harbor and sank 12 ft (3.6 m) before
resurfacing. Who was the designer?
17. In the struggle for American
independence, John Paul Jones
set out to raid the British port
of Whitehaven. Why did this
attempt fail?
18. The Susan Constant, the Godspeed,
and the Discovery sailed to America
in the early 17th century, resulting
in the founding of Jamestown,
Virginia. True or False?
19. Who were privateers?
20. What nationality was the navigator
Bartolomeu Diaz?
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HISTORY

Famous Firsts

1. Who was Britain’s first 15. Who invented and built the world’s
prime minister? first successful airplane?

2. Who is usually accepted as 16. Which pope gave his name

“the father of History”? to a calendar?

3. Who invented the first working
steam engine?
4. Who promised the American
people a New Deal in the 1930s?
17. The moon is Earth’s only natural
satellite: on what date did humans
first walk on its surface?
18. Who founded the Red Cross?

5. Which US president ordered the 19. Who performed the first human
use of the atomic bomb? heart transplant?

6. Who is popularly accepted as 20. Who invented a system of reading

having invented the Internet? and writing for use by the blind?

7. From which country did 21. Who founded the Boy

Christopher Columbus set Scout movement?
sail in 1492 on the voyage
during which he discovered 22. The lighting rod was invented by
the West Indies? which American Founding Father?

8. Who was the first black president 23. Who made the first telephone call?
of the United States?
24. Who was the first man to orbit
9. Whose murder started World War I Earth in space?
in 1914?
25. Who invented the automobile
10. Who, in 1917, promised the in 1886?
Russian people “peace, bread,
and land”?

11. Who led the Chinese Communist

Revolution?

12. Which Mormon leader led the

Latter-day Saints to the Great
Salt Lake?

13. Who invented the electric battery

in 1799?

14. Who invented the flush toilet?

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 D I F F I C U LT
Mapping History
1. How did the ancient Phoenicians
navigate the oceans?
2. Which ancient Greek’s map of
Europe, the Mediterranean, and
North Africa was in use until the
end of the Middle Ages?
3. Camels enabled the Arabs to develop
a trade in incense and spices from
the 12th century ce. What was their
trade route called?
4. In 600 bce, Herodotus claimed
that European traders had
circumnavigated Africa. Who
were they?
5. Which ocean was explored and
settled by Polynesian navigators
from around 1000 bce?
6. Who set up a naval school
at Sagres in 1416 to teach
Portuguese sailors?
7. Which coast of Africa was first
mapped after early Portuguese
voyages of discovery?
8. Which innovation in the rigging of a
sailing ship helped European sailors
to make better use of the wind?
9. With what aspect of world discovery
is Gerardus Mercator associated?
10. Which two European nations
dominated the early voyages
of discovery?
11. Which navigation aid used from
the 18th century measures the angle
between a heavenly body and
the horizon?
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HISTORY
12. Whose voyage to the Spice
Islands was frustrated by finding
the Americas in 1492?
13. European governments were
anxious to find the Northwest
Passage, in order to have a what?
14. Which invention of 1764 allowed
sailors to accurately determine
maritime longitude?
15. Who was the first person to map
parts of New Holland, Tasmania, and
New Zealand in the 17th century?
16. What was Captain Cook’s mission
on his second voyage?
17. Who led the first major European
expedition into the Niger Valley
in 1805?
18. Who were the first cartographers
to cross the United States from
east to west in 1805?
19. Which 19th-century explorer in
central Africa was a Christian
missionary and opponent of slavery?
20. Who led the first expedition to reach
the South Pole in December 1911?
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HISTORY
History of Britain and Ireland
1. When was the last person beheaded
in Britain?
2. Britain went to war with Spain in
1739. What is the war known as?
3. Where did the Peterloo Massacre
of 1819 take place: Manchester,
Dublin, or Leeds?
4. Who went to quell rebellion in
Ireland in 1649?
5. The biggest loss of life in a single
day on English soil was 20,000 men.
What was the name of the battle?
6. Which king abdicated the throne
after reigning for only 327 days?
7. Which war did Britain join in
1854, in alliance with its old
enemy France?
8. Who became a queen in 1542,
when only six days old?
9. In which year did the Act of Union,
which joined Britain and Ireland,
come into effect?
10. London stepped up to host the
Olympic Games in 1906 after
Rome had to pull out. What
made Rome pull out?
11. How long did the Republic of
Connaught last in Ireland?
12. At which battle in Ireland was the
army of James II defeated in 1690?
13. Who was the youngest person
to become the UK prime minister
in the 20th century?
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14. Which famous battle is depicted on
the Bayeux Tapestry?
15. Who designed the Clifton
Suspension Bridge in Bristol?
16. In what year was the Welsh
Assembly formed?
17. Oliver Cromwell is the only person
other than a reigning monarch to
have appeared on the obverse side
of a British coin. True or False?
18. Which prime minister introduced
income tax to Britain in 1799?
19. The period from the outbreak of
World War II to the spring of 1940
was called what?
20. Which politician led the campaign
in Britain to abolish the slave trade?
21. In which decade of the 19th
century did the potato famine
spread in Ireland?
22. After partition, how many counties
formed Northern Ireland?
23. The uprising in Ireland in
1916 was named after which
religious festival?
24. Who was the first queen of
England to rule in her own right?
25. Which former archbishop of
Canterbury was burned at the
stake in 1556?
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Ancient Rome
1. When was the city of
Rome founded?
2. What are the names of the two
brothers who founded Rome?
3. What neighboring earlier culture
influenced Roman development?
4. What form of clothing was worn
only by male Roman citizens?
5. Romans added volcanic ash
to concrete, thus allowing it to
do what?
6. What was the name of the group of
people who governed the republic?
7. Early Rome was ruled by kings.
The last king, Tarquin the Proud,
was banished in 509 bce. True
or False?
8. Which organization had ten cohorts?
9. The Romans wore amber jewelry
as a charm to prevent what?
10. How many people could sit in
the Colosseum?
11. Who did the Romans defeat in
the Punic Wars?
12. How many Roman legionaries were
commanded by a centurion?
13. Septimus Severus was declared
emperor in 195 bce. “Severus” is
Latin for what?
14. What was the name of the simple
straight tunics often worn by
women in ancient Rome?
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QUIZ 45
HISTORY
15. What did the Roman Army
build that helped them to
control a huge empire?
16. How many vestal virgins served
at any one time?
17. The Romans, above all, wanted to
be “civitas.” What did this mean?
18. Freed Roman slaves could vote.
True or False?
19. Which Roman towns were destroyed
by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
in August 79 bce?
20. What did Romans use to heat large
villas and public baths?
21. In which year did the Western
Roman Empire come to an end?
22. Which leader became the dictator
of Rome and put an end to the
Roman Republic?
23. Which religious officials interpreted
signs purporting to show the will of
the gods?
24. Which monument in Rome shows
the army on campaign and bears the
name of an emperor?
25. What did the Eastern Roman
Empire become known as?
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SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Space, the human body,

inventions, psychology, and
engineering—there is something
to test all science sleuths in
these fact-filled quizzes.
From ancient science to
modern technology, test
your science know-how.

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Head to Toe

1. During the growth phase, hairs 16. The eardrum is part of the
grow by how much each month? nervous system. True or False?

2. Which part of the eye changes size 17. In which part of the body are

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to control light going into the eye? the hamstring muscles found?

3. What is the main organ of taste?
4. Where is gray matter found?
5. What bone is sometimes called
“the funny bone”?
20. The medical term for the
6. Which type of tissue can
contract suddenly?
7. Where is bile produced?
18. The term “vaccine” comes from the
Greek word for cow. True or False?
19. Where is the femur, the body’s
longest bone?
voicebox is the what?
21. Where are the small bones called
“phalanges” found?

8. The column of bones running 22. Where are the sclera?

from the neck to the pelvis is
called what? 23. Where in the body are the alveoli?

9. What type of joint does a hip have? 24. What does the Ishihara test indicate?

10. How many chambers are there in 25. Which part of the body has four
the heart? parts: ascending, descending,
transverse, and sigmoid?
11. The largest blood vessel in the
body is the superior vena cava.
True or False?

12. Which organ removes waste

chemicals and water from
the blood?

13. An 8-week-old human fetus

is about the size of a: peanut,
grape, orange?

14. Cells in the human body get

their chemical energy from tiny
powerhouses called what?

15. Which part or parts of the body

consist largely of dead cells?

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Electrical Inventions

1. In electronics, what does “DC”
stand for?
2. Electricity can be used to
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13. The term “kWh” often appears
on electricity bills. What does
it stand for?
14. With what metal are some cars

make things magnetic. What

is the name given to something
that uses electricity to make
it magnetic?
3. Which renewable energy source
makes hydroelectric power?
4. When did the first electric
refrigerators begin to appear?
electroplated to protect them
from rust?
15. What is measured in amps?
16. When was the first electric
toothbrush made?
17. Why are plugs made of plastic?

5. On a battery, what symbol marks 18. An electrocardiogram (ECG)

the positive electrode or cathode?
6. Electric food mixers for homes
were first available in 1910 but
had been invented 4 years earlier
for use in which type of shop?
7. In which year was the first
electric lie detector used: 1900,
1921, 1946?
8. The first electronic computers
were designed for what
wartime purpose?
measures electric current in the
body. What organ is making
the electrical signals detected
by the ECG?
19. Copper is a poor conductor of
electricity. True or False?
20. What name is given to an
unbroken loop through which
electricity can flow?

9. The discovery of what electrical

component in 1947 signaled the
Second Industrial Revolution and
the development of computers?

10. When were the first microwave

ovens patented?

11. Which 19th-century invention

allowed messages to be sent as pulses
of electric current along wires?

12. What kind of electricity can make

your hair stand up?

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Energy Sources

1. The primary source of Earth’s 13. The burning of oil and natural
energy and all the energy in the gas can cause acid rain by
solar system is what? releasing what?

2. What is the typical form of 14. Which European country has the

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renewable electricity generation
used on spacecraft?
3. What name describes oil, natural
gas, and coal as energy sources?
4. What does a solar furnace use
to focus the sun’s rays and thereby
provide energy?
5. The burning of fossil fuels causes
air pollution by releasing which gas?
6. Renewable resources are going to
run out within the next 100 years.
True or False?
7. What, besides tankers, is the
main method for transporting
natural gas?
8. Can crops like sugar cane and
maize be used to generate energy?
9. Which sea provided Britain with
much of its energy in the last
decades of the 20th century?
most nuclear power stations?
15. Renewable resources can be used
over and over again. True or False?
16. Hydroelectric power stations are
often located on: highland regions,
coastal regions, or islands?
17. One disadvantage of hydroelectric
power is that: dams are expensive,
rivers too often run dry, people
protest at the noise?
18. Geothermal power involves
extracting heat energy from
beneath the surface of Earth.
True or False?
19. Organic matter used as a fuel is
referred to as what?
20. Can biogas be made from
animal dung?

10. Waste from nuclear power

plants is difficult to dispose
of. Why?

11. Tidal power systems are examples

of renewable energy sourcing.
True or False?

12. What name is given to the

process of injecting liquid at
high pressure into subterranean
rocks o extract oil?

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Space Race

1. Who was the first man in space? 16. What does “cosmonaut” mean?

2. Who was the first woman 17. What does “astronaut” mean?
in space?
18. Which US president started the race
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3. How long did Alan Shepard’s for the moon?

space flight of 1961 last?
4. In which year did the US land a
man on the moon?
5. Who was the second man on
the moon?
6. Which American was the first to
walk in space?
19. The cooperative Apollo-Soyuz Test
Project spaceflight mission of 1975
eased tensions between the US and
USSR. True or False?
20. Where is the Kennedy Space
Center located?
21. What does “Sputnik” mean?

7. Which US astronaut was the
only one to have been onboard
Mercury-Atlas 6, Gemini 6,
and Apollo 7?
8. How many people have walked
on the moon?
22. What was the name of the launch
vehicle used to send Apollo craft
to the moon?
23. When was NASA founded?
24. What does “NASA” stand for?

9. What is the name of the 25. How many hours did the Apollo 11
Apollo 11 lunar module that astronauts spend on the moon on
made the first manned landing that first historic landing?
on the moon’s surface?

10. What was Sputnik 1?

11. When was it launched?

12. What was the first animal to go

into space orbit?

13. Where did the Russians send

Luna 2 in 1959?

14. What was Explorer 1?

15. What name was given to the

unmanned US probes that landed
on the moon in the 1960s?

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Incredible Bodies
1. Approximately how many
dead skin cells fall off your
body every minute?
2. Where are new blood cells made?
3. Babies are born with 300 bones,
but adults only have how many?
4. How many bones do you have in
each hand?
5. The surface area of the lungs
is approximately the same size
as a what?
6. How many times do your eyes
blink every minute?
7. The main job of the colon is to
absorb water, nutrients, and salts
from partially digested food.
True or False?
8. What are the smallest blood
vessels called?
9. Approximately how many new cells
do you create every second?
10. Is it true that humans have fewer
muscles than caterpillars do?
11. How long does it take one red
blood cell to travel around your
entire body?
12. Does breathing require conscious
or unconscious effort?
13. Do you use more muscles to frown
or smile?
14. What carries oxygen around
the body?
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QUIZ 50
15. What is the biggest organ in
your body?
16. What stops blood from
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flowing backward?
17. What is the fastest-growing hair
on the human body?
18. What does the cranium protect?
19. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
contains the instructions for a
living thing to grow and to work.
True or False?
20. Each human grows an entire new
layer of skin every what?
21. How much food will you eat in
your lifetime?
22. There are enough blood vessels
in the human body to stretch around
Earth’s equator twice. True or False?
23. How many baby teeth does a
baby have?
24. Which is the hardest-working
muscle in the body?
25. Nose, windpipe, and lungs make
up which system?
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 QUIZ 51
Wheels, Watches, and Widgets
1. Roller skates were invented more
than 200 years ago. True or False?
2. What is the name of the giant Ferris
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wheel beside the Thames River
in England?
3. Maurice Gatsonides invented
a speed camera. What was
his profession?
4. Which parts of a car have discs
and pads?
5. Why does a race car have a wing
or airfoil?
6. Diesel engines have no spark plugs.
True or False?
7. What is a 4x4?
8. What is a Swiss Army knife?
9. Every swing of a pendulum takes
the same time. True or False?
10. What did Linus Yale invent?
11. When was the digital watch created?
12. What is a chronometer?
13. What became almost redundant
when digital cameras came along?
14. What is the study of time called?
15. What name is given to the
kind of wheels that have teeth
or notches to engage with
other wheels?
16. What vibrates inside a
quartz watch?
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17. What were old-fashioned baby
buggies called?
18. Some canned drinks include a small
device to improve the fizziness.
What is this device called?
19. From 1974 to 1995, the US national
speed limit for cars was 55 mph
(89 kmph). True or False?
20. The famous clock in Wells
Cathedral in England is more than
600 years old. True or False?
21. What is Big Ben?
22. In which century was the alarm
clock invented?
23. What does “widget” mean?
24. Frederick Henry Royce and Charles
Stewart Rolls first teamed up in
1904. True or False?
25. In which year did Ransom
Olds make the first car using
mass-production methods: 1896,
1901, 1918?
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Plane to See

1. Most aircraft wheels are 14. At what angle do helicopters land

arranged like the wheels of and take off?
a tricycle. True or False?
15. Charles Lindbergh made
2. What is the place where an

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the first solo flight across the
aircraft lands and takes Atlantic Ocean. What did he
off called? call his airplane?

3. Why is a biplane airplane 16. In 1986, an airplane flew

called this?
4. Which branch of the US military
would a prospective pilot join?
5. How were the first
airplanes powered?
6. Orville and Wilbur Wright made
flying history in 1903 with the
first powered airplane. What was
the name of their machine?
7. How many engines does a
Boeing 747 jumbo jet have?
20. Why are Alcock and Brown
8. What is “jetlag”?
all the way around the world
without stopping. What was
the airplane called?
17. Airliners cruise in the stratosphere
at 30,000 ft (9,144 m). What is the
temperature of the outside air
up there?
18. Airline pilots train using a computer
flight simulator. True or False?
19. Which was the first supersonic
airliner to fly transatlantic services?
famous flyers?

9. In an airliner, does the captain

usually sit in the left- or
right-hand seat?

10. The largest airplane to have

flown was called the Spruce
Goose. What was it made of?

11. What sort of aircraft uses an

arrester hook?

12. By what name is an

aircraft’s flight recorder
popularly known?

13. In 1910, Louis Blériot won a

prize for flying over water.
What did he fly across?

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 QUIZ 53 EASY

On the Road

1. What color traffic light 14. Percy Shaw invented a reflector

means “stop”? to help with road safety at night.
What is it called?
2. Some sedan chairs were used
15. The Roman road from London
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like taxis in 1700s London. True

or False? to York was called: Watling
Street, the Great North Road,
3. A juggernaut is a type of digger. Ermine Street?
True or False?
16. Early cars were called horseless
4. How far could an ox-cart travel on carriages. True or False?
a Roman road in a day?
17. The concept of traffic lights was
5. What does a turbo, or turbocharger, first created for the railroads, not
in a car do? streets and roads. True or False?

6. Some bikes are made of carbon 18. Why do heavy trucks have lots
fiber. What are the advantages of wheels?
of this material?
19. Which engineer improved roads
7. What kind of vehicle was a in Britain in the early 1800s by
London Routemaster? designing better-drained and
hard-wearing surfaces?
8. What is a “Gatso”?
20. The first cars had solid wheels.
9. What approximate braking distance True or False?
should a driver allow when moving
at 30 mph (48 kmph): about 16 ft
(5 m), about 33 ft (10 m), or more
than 65 ft (20 m)?

10. What is a “crumple zone”?

11. In which year did President

Eisenhower sign the
Federal-Aid Highway Act,
allowing the construction
of US interstate highways?

12. What was the power source

in a hansom cab of the late
19th century?

13. Minibikes are allowed on all US

public roads. True or False?

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Meanwhile, Back on the Farm

1. Some of the first tractors used steam 14. Why is fresh milk usually cooled
power. True or False? as soon as possible?

2. We get a lot of our food from 15. Some farm machinery uses

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the wheat plant. Which part of it pressurized oil to provide a force for
do we eat? lifting. What is this system called?

3. What does a tractor pull to dig rows
in a field?
4. Farmers cut fresh grass and
let it dry so that it does not
spoil. What is the dried
grass called?
5. A windmill is used to make flour
from grain. True or False?
6. Why do sheep grow wool?
7. Is it true that Colorado beetles are
good for farm crops?
8. What are “pesticides”?
16. In dry weather, farmers
use artificial methods to water
the fields. What is this
technique called?
17. Farmers can improve the soil by
adding chemicals containing
nitrogen. Why would
adding nitrogen help?
18. Farmers keep cattle from straying
with an electric fence. What
happens when the cattle touch
the electric fence?
19. Can some animal manure be used
an organic soil fertilizer?

9. Many vegetables are grown 20. All plants can make sugar. What is
in polytunnels. How does the main energy source for this?
covering the plants with
transparent plastic help?

10. In cool regions, tomatoes are

grown in greenhouses. How
does the glass structure help
the tomato plants?

11. Farm vehicles have very wide tires.

What is the reason for this?

12. Some farm machines in the

19th century were steam-driven.
True or False?

13. We get a lot of our food from

the potato plant. Which part
of the plant do we eat?

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Space is Ace

1. Which is the smallest planet in 17. Which was the first comet seen
our solar system? in close-up?

2. How old is the sun? 18. What does “ISS” stand for?
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3. Which galaxy are we in? 19. The first spacewalk was made by
Alexei Leonov. True or False?
4. Which planet travels fastest around
the sun? 20. Which planet has the most rings?

5. Which planet is sometimes called 21. What do the planets in the solar
“the red planet”? system orbit around?

6. Which missions took astronauts 22. Which planet has now been
to the moon? downgraded to dwarf-planet status?

7. What is the closest star to Earth?
8. Yuri Gagarin was the first
astronaut to walk on the moon.
True or False?
9. Which is the smallest constellation?
23. Which planet is usually closest
to Earth?
24. After whom or what is Mars named?
25. Which planet is third in distance
from the sun?

10. What is the brightest star in the

night sky?

11. Is the Starfish a constellation?

12. Which spacecraft gave astronauts

their first look at the far side of
the moon?

13. Which planets are at either side

of the asteroid belt?

14. Which planet is completely

covered by clouds?

15. On which planet did the rover

Opportunity land and keep
working from 2004 to 2018?

16. What is at the center of the

Milky Way galaxy?

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You Think You Know about Biology

1. What is produced during 16. Which teeth tear food?

photosynthesis?
17. Who devised the scientific system
2. What substance in leaves for naming organisms?

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makes them green?
18. What is the main purpose
3. A potato is a stem tuber. of a flower?
True or False?
19. Which are the only animals
4. What provides the energy with feathers?
for photosynthesis?
20. The classification group for animals
5. Which animal group has a pouch? with mammary glands is what?

6. What are injections that protect you

against diseases called?

7. What is the main component of the

cardiovascular system?

8. How often is your skin replaced?

9. What did Daniel Gabriel

Fahrenheit invent?

10. How are hormones transported

around your body?

11. Would a microbiologist

study psychology?

12. Invertebrates have a backbone.

True or False?

13. What gives red blood cells

their color?

14. In which continent has evidence

been found of hominids’ existence
7 million years ago?

15. Who invented a heating and

cooling process that is used to
sterilize food and liquids?

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What’s the Matter?

1. What type of substance can be 17. A compound is a combination of

picked up because its component two or more what?
atoms cannot move around?
18. What scale does the Universal
2. Helium gas is an example of a
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Indicator use?
substance that has no structure and
whose atoms can move around 19. What is the pH value of a
freely. True or False? strong alkali?

3. Are diamonds hard or 20. Which of these is an example

soft materials? of a weak acid: lemon juice, sour
milk, mashed potato?
4. What is the melting point of ice?
21. Plasma is a state of matter.
5. What is the boiling point of water? True or False?

6. What are the two main types 22. What is “sublimation”?

of solids?
23. When a gas condenses, what
7. What is an “LCD”? does it become?

8. Is syrup more viscous than milk?
9. What is evaporation?
10. What does the “H” in H2O
stand for?
24. Gases are hard to compress.
True or False?
25. What is the term used to describe
a liquid becoming solid?

11. What happens when you put an

object that is more dense than
water in the water?

12. What does “diffusion” mean?

13. Is the melting of an ice cube a

reversible change?

14. Which is the most common

substance in air?

15. Which element is needed for

life as we know it to exist?

16. What happens to a candle if

there is no oxygen?

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Are You a Science Sleuth?

1. What was pioneered by the surgeon 16. Is lead magnetic?

Joseph Lister?
17. What did an Austrian monk named
2. What was the name of Charles Mendel research using pea plants?

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Darwin’s ship?
18. Which New Zealand–born physicist
3. What is a “newton”? discovered the atomic nucleus?

4. The first commercial telefax service 19. What material is used to

was introduced in 1865, 11 years make microchips?
before the invention of telephones.
True or False? 20. Who created a code using dots
and dashes?
5. Which substance was discovered
by the Polish-born scientist
Marie Curie?

6. Which artist, who painted the

Mona Lisa, also designed inventions?

7. Who formalized rules for nursing

after her work at Scutari?

8. What garden observation is said to

have inspired Isaac Newton’s ideas
about gravity?

9. What did Louis Pasteur study?

10. What is the chemical symbol

for potassium?

11. Who was the first astronaut to walk

on the moon?

12. The invention of the wheel occurred

in the Iron Age. True or False?

13. Of what was Guglielmo Marconi

a pioneer?

14. Who invented dynamite?

15. Who discovered the mold that

led to penicillin?

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Powered by Oil

1. The first internal combustion 14. Trolleys were powered

engines used gas as a fuel. by overhead electricity lines.
True or False? True or False?

2. After whom did Karl Benz name 15. What was the first passenger jet?
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the Mercedes-Benz car?

3. What was invented by John
Boyd Dunlop in 1888, as a
solution to uncomfortable
bicycle rides?
4. Who invented the diesel
engine in 1892?
5. In which year was the first ocean-
going diesel ship launched: 1890,
1901, 1911?
6. Could you burn jet fuel in a
kerosine heater?
7. What were the R101, the Hindenburg,
and the Graf Zeppelin?
16. Which new form of transportation
was invented by Christopher
Cockerell in 1955?
17. What are Scotts, Triumphs,
and BSAs?
18. What was invented by Lambretta
in 1947?
19. Which form of transportation
has made international
travel affordable?
20. A Boeing aircraft was nicknamed
“the Jumbo” because of its size.
By what series number is it
properly known?

8. What was a “Short Sunderland”?

9. For what are John Alcock, Arthur

Whitten Brown, and their Vickers
Vimy bomber famous?

10. What type of ships competed for

the Blue Riband for the fastest
crossing of the Atlantic Ocean?

11. Which “unsinkable” passenger liner

sank on its first voyage across the
Atlantic in 1912?

12. What was a “charabanc”?

13. What was the name of Herbert

Austin’s mass-produced “baby”
car, manufactured between 1922
and 1939?

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Robots

1. Who is the diminutive white and 15. The da Vinci multiarmed

blue robot in Star Wars? wonderbot was designed for use
in: surgery, car manufacturing,
2. “Robot” comes from the Czech warehouse handling?

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word for “slave.” True or False?
16. Which robotic car was the star
3. Which science-fiction writer came of the TV show Knight Rider?
up with the Laws of Robotics?
17. Some robots went rogue in
4. Nikola Tesla made a foray into which futuristic movie starring
robotics by designing what in 1898? Will Smith?

5. More than half of the world’s robots 18. How many of the world’s robots
are located in Asia. True or False? can be found in Africa?

6. Wakamaru is a Japanese domestic 19. What kind of robot is designed to

robot designed to help whom? look like a human?

7. In which Fritz Lang movie can a 20. There is a robot in The Simpsons
robot be seen? TV show. True or False?

8. How many Laws of Robotics

are there?

9. Built in 1961, Unimate was the

first industrial robot. What work
did it do?

10. What was the name of the robot in

the 1956 film Forbidden Planet?

11. What were the names of the

human-looking robots in the movie
Blade Runner?

12. Japanese robot EveR-2 was the first

android with the ability to do what?

13. Optimus Prime is a robot in

which films?

14. Many industrial robots with

fixed arms are used for what
simple function?

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Heat, Light, and Sound

1. Heat is created by vibrating atoms. 16. What happens to light rays that
True or False? strike a concave lens?

2. What happens to light particles 17. A rainbow results from refraction

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when light hits an uneven surface? and what other action of light?

3. What is the name of the unit 18. Onto what part of the human eye
for energy? does the lens focus an image?

4. What device do we use to 19. What part of a camera is like the

measure heat energy? pupil in our eyes?

5. What form of heat transfer causes 20. What kind of lens would you find
a metal pan handle to get hot? in a pair of binoculars?

6. What happens to metals when

they are heated?

7. What happens when gases

are cooled?

8. What is the main way in which

heat is transferred through a fluid?

9. What type of waves are

sound waves?

10. Ultrasound waves can produce an

image on a screen. True or False?

11. Does sound travel fastest

through gas, air, or solids?

12. If a ray of light hits a mirror at

30 degrees, what angle will it be
reflected at?

13. What happens to light rays that

strike a convex mirror?

14. An endoscope uses total internal

reflection. True or False?

15. What is happening when light

waves bend?

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Psychology

1. According to the ancient Greeks, 14. The “collective unconscious” is a

what was the cause of hysteria? term coined by which psychologist?

2. What was Sigmund 15. With what group of people

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Freud’s nationality?
3. What did the 19th-century
discipline of phrenology study?
4. A “Freudian slip” is a term for an
act or word that is close to but
different than what is consciously
intended and reflects unconscious
motives or desires. True or False?
5. What discipline did Carl Jung found?
6. According to Freud, what three
levels constitute the mind?
20. What popular idea was disproved
7. According to Galton, what are the
two major influences on a person?
is the therapy of Melanie
Klein associated?
16. Erich Fromm defined how many
nonproductive personality types?
17. What does the Zeigarnik Effect
claim to prove?
18. According to Endel Tulving, how
many types of memory are there?
19. Who conducted the first experiments
involving subliminal advertising?
by Harry Harlow’s experiments
on monkeys?

8. The origin of the word

“schizophrenia” derives from
the Egyptian “skezoz” for “torn.”
True or False?

9. What mental property was

Hermann Ebbinghaus studying:
memory, intuition, or intelligence?

10. Which psychologist proposed the idea

of the “intelligence quotient” or IQ?

11. On what animals did

Pavlov perform his famous
conditioning experiments?

12. What did Stanley Milgram’s

experiments at Yale University
aim to measure?

13. What method did Freud give up

in favor of psychoanalysis?

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A Voyage through the Solar System

1. What was the name of the first 15. What covers the surface of
US reusable manned spacecraft? Jupiter’s moon Io?

2. Which planet in the solar system 16. Which planet has the largest
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is similar in size to Earth? set of rings?

3. Who was the second man to 17. Approximately how many stars
walk on the moon? are in the Milky Way galaxy?

4. What is the name of the space 18. What are the white areas that
station that was constructed in are visible on Neptune?
orbit around Earth between
1998 and 2012? 19. Is Ophelia a moon?

5. Which acid is found in the clouds 20. Which of Saturn’s moons did the
of Venus? Cassini-Huygens probe visit?

6. Which planet has red dust over

most of its surface?

7. What covers the surface

of Mercury?

8. Which planet’s name is

the Roman version of the
Greek Cronus?

9. What is the eighth and farthest

planet from the sun?

10. What is the name of the

spacecraft launched to explore
Venus in 1989?

11. What was NASA’s MER?

12. What is found in the solar system

between Mars and Jupiter?

13. Most stars form in nebulae. What

is a “nebula”?

14. At least 336 bodies in the solar

system are formally classified
as moons. True or False?

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So You Think You’re a Science Sleuth
1. Who invented the first light bulb?
2. Where was Albert Einstein born?
3. What is Einstein’s theory called?
4. Isaac Newton studied
mathematics, physics, optics,
and which other subject?
5. Who, in about 400 bce, set up
a medical school that sought
physical causes for illnesses?
6. Who discovered that a body
displaces its own volume in water?
7. A “dynamo” is a form of generator.
True or False?
8. Copernicus asserted that
the sun was the center of the
universe. True or False?
9. What did Benjamin
Franklin discover?
10. Who wrote: “Changing a
magnetic field can generate
an electric field”?
11. On which properties of gas
did Robert Boyle concentrate
his research?
12. What do cipher machines do?
13. Who won a Nobel Prize for
his work on radiography?
14. Which modern cosmologist
used an electronic voice?
15. What was the first successful
vaccine to be developed?
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16. In the 19th century, glass vacuum
tubes proved useful in which area?
17. The Montgolfier brothers are
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credited with creating which
flying machine?
18. Who sent the first wireless signal
across the English Channel?
19. The printing press is widely
regarded as the most important
invention of the “modern period.”
Who invented it?
20. In which country did people first
use gunpowder?
21. 50% of human DNA is the same
as that in a banana. True or False?
22. How many chromosomes do
humans have?
23. Which scientist did experiments on
inheritance in pea plants?
24. DNA is a code using four bases.
Which letters are used to represent
this code?
25. A change in the structure of a gene
is called what?
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Can You Feel the Force?

1. What kind of compass do modern 14. What characteristic of direct

ships use to navigate? current is required for electrolysis
to work?
2. In a homemade compass, why
15. What is the wire inside a
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does the needle point to Earth’s

magnetic North Pole? light bulb called?

3. When particles emitted from the 16. What is Ohm’s law about?
sun interact with Earth’s magnetic
field, what do we see near the 17. How do n-type semiconductors
North Pole? conduct electricity?

4. What is the name of the naturally 18. Do conductors have a high or

occurring magnetic material? low resistance?

5. A battery will last longer if it 19. When was the transistor invented?
is stored at a low temperature.
True or False? 20. What can be defined as the speed
of an object in a given direction?
6. What type of medical scan uses a
magnetic field to detect problems
in our bodies?

7. Which scientist made the

link between electricity
and magnetism?

8. What type of electricity do we

get at home?

9. In Fleming’s right-hand rule, what

does the first finger indicate?

10. In Fleming’s left-hand rule, what

does the thumb indicate?

11. What kind of electricity generators

are used in power stations?

12. What drives a turbine in a

coal-fired power station?

13. What type of transformer has

more turns on the secondary
coil than on the primary coil?

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Engineers and Engineering: Past to Present

1. How long did the Step Pyramid
of Djoser take to build, covering
almost the duration of his reign?
2. The Pantheon in Rome is made of
14. Who made the world’s first phone
call in 1876?
15. The Greek sculptor Phidias

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supervised construction of
marble and what other material? which building?

3. Engineers in which country first
developed the water wheel?
4. Which device for detecting
ground movements did Zhang
Heng invent?
16. A complete car left the Ford
Model T assembly line every
10 seconds. True or False?
17. Which structure was the entrance
to the 1889 World’s Fair?

5. Which engineer was said to have 18. Where is the world’s

shouted “Eureka!” after a bath? tallest building?

6. Who built lighthouses in the 19. Who designed the Brooklyn

1700s and first used the term Suspension Bridge in New York City?
“civil engineer”?
20. How long is the Large
7. In which century did Drebbel Hadron Collider tunnel?
demonstrate a primitive submersible
on the Thames River?

8. Who discovered the law

of elasticity?

9. Of which familiar domestic

appliance is American engineer
Jacob Perkins said to be the “father”?

10. Which of the Founding Fathers

devised bifocal glasses and
designed an improved fireplace?

11. In which US state was the

first-known metal suspension
bridge built?

12. Over which river did the first

hot-air balloon fly?

13. Who designed the Crystal Palace

for the Exhibition of 1851?

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Mad Science
1. It is impossible for a person to
sneeze with his or her eyes open.
True or False?
2. Which birds can fly backward?
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3. 89% of water is made up of
which element?
4. Approximately how long would a
metal ball take to fall from a ship
to the deepest point in the ocean:
10 minutes, 1 hour, or 15 hours?
5. Approximately how much would a
thimbleful of a neutron star weigh?
6. Approximately how many people
in the world are estimated to
carry parasitic hookworms?
7. The interstellar gas cloud
Sagittarius B contains an
enormous mass of what?
8. Fingernails grow faster than
toenails. True or False?
9. Can oysters change their sex?
10. What is the hottest planet in
the solar system?
11. If Earth was the size of a grain of
sand, on the same scale, how far
away would be the next closest
star, Alpha Centauri: roughly
1
⁄2 mile (1 km), 6 miles (10 km),
60 miles (100 km)?
12. Sound travels faster in water than
air by how many times?
13. What part of the human body does
not grow as an individual ages?
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14. Which African mammal has no
vocal cords?
15. How long does it take Earth
to make one full rotation?
16. Approximately how many
detectable earthquakes occur
every year on Earth?
17. What gas is commonly produced
by cows?
18. What animal can accelerate faster
than a launching space shuttle?
19. Astronauts cannot belch in space.
True or False?
20. How many years will elapse
before our sun is expected to
turn into a red giant?
21. What dinosaur do people associate
with the Loch Ness monster?
22. What is the chemical name for
“Laughing Gas,” which Sir
Humphry Davy found made
people less aware of pain?
23. What set of huge stones may have
been created as an early calendar?
24. What new branch of scientific
knowledge was developed by
Gregor Mendel in the 19th century,
through his study of pea plants?
25. For what did scientist António
Egas Moniz controversially
win the Nobel Prize in 1949?
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Cloning

1. Born on July 5 1996, what creature 14. Do most studies reveal that
became the first cloned mammal cloned animals have increased
in the world? risk of deformity at birth?

2. In 2004, South Korean scientists 15. In which popular series of science-

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cloned the first human in history. fiction movies is a cloned trooper
True or False? army created?

3. The word “clone” comes from the 16. Mewtwo is a clone character from
ancient Greek word for what? which popular Japanese anime?

4. Can a cow be cloned? 17. Russian scientists are attempting

to clone a prehistoric woolly
5. Approximately what percentage of mammoth using DNA from
cloning attempts succeed? elephants. True or False?

6. Somatic-cell nuclear transfer 18. Which Steven Spielberg movie

produces embryos for therapeutic tells the story of extinct creatures
purposes. True or False? cloned and brought back to life?

7. In 1952, what was the first species 19. Do an animal and its clone share
of creature to be cloned? exactly the same DNA?

8. What was the name of the world’s 20. What was the name of the first
first commercially cloned cat? cloned mammal in the world?

9. The world’s first cloned dog, an

Afghan hound, was born in which
Asian country?

10. Which extinct species did the

Australian Museum attempt to
clone in the early 2000s?

11. The first hybrid human clone was

created from a man’s leg cell and
a cow’s egg. True or False?

12. Which Aldous Huxley novel deals

with the thorny issue of artificially
producing humans?

13. In which year was the consumption

of meat and other products from
cloned animals approved in the US?

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Technologic

1. In which year was the first 15. In 1940, what did the initials “CNC”
portable computer released? refer to?

2. What did Howard Aiken and Grace 16. In which year did Microsoft
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Hopper create in 1941? launch Windows?

3. In 1943, computer engineers 17. What is the best-selling computer

at MIT began work on the “Project
Whirlwind” flight simulator
for the US Navy. When was
the project completed?
4. Which British computer scientist
led the team that cracked the
Enigma code?
of all time?
18. During which years was the
best-selling computer of all
time in production?
19. Who designed the Linux
operating system?

5. Which corporation was responsible 20. What breakthrough first-person-

for manufacturing the UNIVAC I shooter game was released in 1993?
in the early 1950s?

6. Approximately how much did a

UNIVAC I cost to buy at that time?

7. When was IBM founded?

8. What does “IBM” stand for?

9. What was the name of the first

video game, created for the DEC
PDP-1 computer?

10. What did Douglas Engelbart

create in 1964?

11. What was the Intel 1103,

released in 1970?

12. In which year was the first

email sent?

13. Who designed the Apple I in 1976?

14. What was the first portable

computer called?

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Great Scientists
1. Which scientist was the first to see
the moon through a telescope?
2. Which famous ancient Greek scientist
contributed to the fields of physics,
zoology, politics, and biology?
3. Which great scientist wrote On the
Origin of Species by Means of
Natural Selection?
4. Which New Zealand scientist is
credited with splitting the atom?
5. Which principle concerning
subatomic particles in the field
of quantum mechanics was put
forward by Werner Heisenberg?
6. For what was scientist Alessandro
Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
best known?
7. Which scientist pioneered electric
light and had more than 1,000
patents to his name?
8. Whose germ research showed
that viruses were not detectable
through an optical microscope?
9. Which Polish scientist was
awarded Nobel Prizes in both
physics and chemistry?
10. Who is the English mathematician
and logician widely considered to be
the father of computer science?
11. Which female scientist who fled
the Nazis invented the term
“nuclear fission”?
12. Which Nobel laureate physicist was
responsible for inventing radio?
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13. Which astronomer proposed
that the sun was at the center
of the universe?
14. Which great ancient scientist
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invented the screw pump and
siege machine?
15. Which self-taught scientist
invented the dynamo in the
1830s and made breakthrough
investigations into electrolysis?
16. The Renaissance Italian who
conceptualized a helicopter, a tank,
solar power, and the calculator
was who?
17. Florey and Chain brought what
discovery to the medical world
in the 20th century?
18. Which French psychologist
invented the first practical IQ
test for students?
19. Which famous Cambridge professor
wrote A Brief History of Time?
20. Which Englishman, described
as “the greatest scientist who
ever lived,” is known for his
groundbreaking discoveries
in gravitation and motion?
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To Boldly Go

1. Soyuz, a type of spacecraft first 13. Cometary nuclei are so small

used in the mid-1960s, is completely
reusable. True or False?
2. In space exploration, what is
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that they cannot be viewed by
Earth-based telescopes. To
be seen, they must be visited by

spacecraft. True or False?

a “fairing”?
14. Which was the first planet,
3. Salyut was so named in other than Earth, to be orbited
whose honor? by a spacecraft?

4. The Mir Space Station was only a
core unit when launched, so that
more modules could be added later
in space. True or False?
5. How many astronauts did each
Apollo mission carry?
6. In 1962, Mariner 2 found that Venus
had a cold surface. True or False?
7. On January 6, 2005, the Mars
Exploration Rover Opportunity
found the first: water, meteorite, or
uranium on another planet?
8. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft
to have flown by which planet?
9. Spacesuits were originally made-to-
measure but are now a standard
size with adjustable leg lengths.
True or False?
10. Between 1969 and 1972, around
200 samples were brought back
by six Apollo missions. True
or False?
15. When were the first live TV signals
relayed from the US to Britain with
the use of satellites?
16. The rovers that went to Mars were
designed so that their cameras are
roughly the height of an astronaut’s
eyes. True or False?
17. Itokawa is an irregularly shaped
asteroid made of silicate rock.
Which country sent a craft to
observe it?
18. Astronauts’ bones grow faster
during spaceflights. True or False?
19. What do these craft have in
common: Pioneer 10 and 11,
Voyager 1 and 2, and Galileo?
20. What was the name of the
European Space Agency’s
first mission to a planet?

11. Three lunar roving vehicles were

taken to the moon by the US. What
happened to them?

12. In which year was the Hubble Space

Telescope launched into orbit?

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Supercars
1. What was allegedly the fastest car
in the world in 2020?
2. What was the first road car to
exceed 200 mph (322 kmph)?
3. The Dodge Viper SRT-10 (Mk II)
has a larger engine than the Bugatti
Veyron. True or False?
4. Which was the first production
supercar to feature a mid-
engine design?
5. Which was the last rear-wheel-drive
Lamborghini supercar still being
sold in the new millennium?
6. Which former Formula 1 champion
was involved with the early
development of the Ferrari 458 Italia?
7. Koenigsegg Automotive is based
in which country?
8. Which supercar is capable of
extracting more than 1,000 bhp
from its Chrysler Viper engine?
9. What was the first road car to
achieve 0–100 mph (0–161 kmph)
in under 10 seconds?
10. Name the first supercar from Japan.
11. Which car’s shape was based on
more than 1,000 hours of research
in a wind tunnel?
12. What is the Lamborghini
Murcielago named after?
13. In 2006, which manufacturer
entered the production supercar
market with the launch of the R8?
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14. Which supercar manufacturer
has “For the tenacious, no road
is impassable” as its motto?
15. In the film Quantum of Solace, the
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McLaren F1 replaced the Aston
Martin DB7 Volante as James
Bond’s car of choice. True or False?
16. Which German car manufacturer
owns Bugatti?
17. Which former Formula 1 champion
was involved in the early
development of the Pagani Zonda?
18. What was the first Aston Martin
to be manufactured under
Ford’s ownership?
19. What replaced the McLaren F1 as
the world’s fastest road car in 2005?
20. What was the final model
commissioned by Enzo Ferrari?
21. The Tesla Roadster electric
car claims to do 0–100 mph
(0–161 kmph) in 4.2 seconds.
True or False?
22. What is Formula E?
23. Which animal does the Alfa Romeo
logo feature?
24. What was the Porsche supercar
from the 1980s?
25. Where is the Tesla company’s
US base?
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Historic Medicine
1. Which ancient civilization was the
first to use examination, diagnosis,
treatment, and prognosis for
medical ailments?
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2. What became the anesthetic of
choice after the 1840s?
3. X-ray-proof underwear for women
appeared soon after the discovery
of X-rays in 1895. True or False?
4. From which civilization does
the diagnostic handbook
Sakikku come?
5. Which ancient Greek is considered
to be the father of modern medicine?
6. Some medieval physicians
calculated the moon’s position
before performing what?
7. What was the greatest medical
contribution of the Arab physician
known in the West as Abulcasis?
8. What did English physician
William Harvey describe to
the medical world?
9. What radical medical practice did
Ignaz Semmelweis prescribe for
doctors attending women in labor?
10. An ancient Egyptian mummy
was found buried with a wooden
prosthesis for which body part?
11. During which decade was the
disease smallpox eradicated?
12. During which war did Florence
Nightingale’s exploits give nursing
a new respectability?
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13. By linking microorganisms with
disease, Louis Pasteur brought
about a revolution in medicine.
True or False?
14. In which decade did tobacco
smoking first become linked
to lung cancer?
15. Peseshet, the first-known woman
physician, practiced in ancient
Egypt in the Fourth Dynasty.
True or False?
16. In which year was the World Health
Organization founded?
17. During the American Civil War,
more deaths were caused by disease
than by battles. True or False?
18. Which mysterious disease that
affected Anne Boleyn, among
others, was prevalent until the
1550s, when it suddenly vanished?
19. Which people did ancient Greek
writer Herodotus describe
as “the healthiest of all men, next
to the Libyans”?
20. Following the British cholera
epidemic of 1854, what conclusion
did John Snow reach?
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Solar System Challenge
1. Which is the second-largest planet
in the solar system?
2. How many known moons does
Jupiter have?
3. What are PHOs?
4. Which planet is famous for its
Great Red Spot?
5. Which is the most abundant gas
in Earth’s atmosphere?
6. Which planet has the shortest orbit?
7. The missions that landed 12 men
on the moon between 1969 and
1972 were part of which NASA
space program?
8. The four largest planets in the
solar system have what common
features around all of them?
9. What is the largest solid body in
the solar system?
10. What can be seen on the
surface of the sun where strong
magnetism prevents hot gas
from reaching it?
11. Which atmospheric layer lies
beneath Earth’s stratosphere?
12. Which planet is sometimes
described as Earth’s twin
because of its similarity in size?
13. Who was the last astronaut to
walk on the moon?
14. What did William Herschel
discover in March 1781?
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15. When were the first satellite
pictures of Earth seen?
16. There are two regions of space
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beyond Neptune filled with
comets. What is the name of
the innermost region?
17. Which of the four giant planets
is the smallest?
18. Name the largest moon in our
solar system.
19. Which was the first planet to be
fully orbited by a spacecraft?
20. Titan is the largest of which
planet’s moons?
21. What kind of star would have
a mass of approximately 20
solar masses?
22. How do stars produce energy?
23. What happens to a main sequence
star at the end of its life?
24. What is a binary system?
25. What was NASA’s Kepler Mission
(2009–2018) designed to search for?
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Trains

1. The word “train” originally comes 14. Which two cities did the original
from the Latin trahere. What did Orient Express travel between?
this word mean?
15. Which strip of sea do Eurostar
2. Who demonstrated the first steam
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trains cross using a tunnel?

locomotive in 1804?
16. The 1930 Beyer-Garratt was one
3. What name is given to the of Europe’s largest-ever steam
minimum-friction train system locomotives. How many wheels
that uses two sets of magnets? did it have?

4. Name the locomotive entered by
George Stephenson for the Rainhill
Trials of 1829.
5. In railway-speak, what is the name
of the building where trains are
stored and serviced?
6. On a US railroad train, what
name was used for the car
used as an office and as the
crew’s sleeping quarters?
7. In which year did London’s first
underground railway line open?
17. What was the TGV, introduced in
France in 1981?
18. High-speed trains usually travel
at speeds above 124 mph (200 kmph).
True or False?
19. Which country has the biggest rail
network in terms of track length?
20. Which steam train made the world’s
longest nonstop run (London to
Edinburgh) in 1928?

8. In railway jargon, what is

“rolling stock”?

9. Which country has a high-speed-rail

bridge that is more than 100 miles
(160 km) long?

10. What can be put onto railway tracks

to provide better grip?

11. In railway terms, what is a “bogie”?

12. Which type of railway wagon

carries liquids?

13. A monorail train can travel on

up to three railway tracks at the
same time. True or False?

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The Good, the Bad, and the Body Part

1. What shape are the chromosomes
that make up DNA?
2. Some strands of DNA are made
15. What name is given to cells that
can divide through mitosis to
become specialized?
16. Renal arteries carry blood to

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up of ademine, guamine, thymine,
and which other chemical? the kidneys from which major
blood vessel?
3. What shape are muscle cells?
17. What can endometriosis cause?
4. What are the protein units in
DNA called? 18. Where is the fontanelle?

5. How many chromosomes are 19. What is a zygote?

in a human genome?
20. What are eye teeth also known as?
6. What is a biological
catalyst called? 21. What is the large intestine also
known as?
7. What is the term for the breaking
down of complex molecules during 22. What is the duodenum part of?
energy production?
23. Where are your napes?
8. When the upper part of the stomach
bulges through the esophageal 24. Which organ has a neck, body,
opening in the diaphragm, the and tail?
condition is called what?
25. What connects the kidneys and
9. What name is given to the disease the bladder?
that causes pouches to bulge out of
the colon wall?

10. What is the function of the kidneys?

11. What is the average amount of urine

produced by an adult every day?

12. Where in the body does cystic

fibrosis occur?

13. What is stored in the gallbladder?

14. What name is given to the flap of

elastic cartilage attached to the
entrance of the larynx?

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The Development of Medicine
1. What was a doctor’s vade mecum?
2. What did Banting and Best pioneer
the use of?
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3. What record did Robert Liston hold
in 19th-century surgery?
4. Which drink was originally
developed as patent medicine to
cure sickness, headaches, neuralgia,
hysteria, and melancholy?
5. What event, in 1858, prompted
the building of a new sewer system
for London?
6. What part of the human body did
William Harvey deduce must exist
but was unable to prove?
7. What is Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick
associated with?
8. Why was thalidomide prescribed
to pregnant women in the
period 1959–1962?
9. What was a key ingredient of
Godfrey’s Cordial, which was
also used as a cure for flatulence
and insomnia?
10. What prosthetic limb was developed
by the French surgeon Paré in the
16th century?
11. Which organization was founded in
1863 by Henry Dunant in Geneva?
12. Which medicine is a version of the
chemical salicylic acid?
13. What did flagellants do to avoid
catching the Black Death?
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14. Who was the secretary to the Poor
Law Board who said poor living
conditions in towns and poor health
of the workers were connected?
15. Digitalis flowers contain a substance
that, although poisonous, can also be
used in medicine for the heart. True
or False?
16. In which decade did St. Vincent’s
School of Nursing in New York
City begin to accept men?
17. Who became the first secretary
of the US Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare (HEW)
in 1953?
18. What was used as a treatment for
syphilis, which was painful and
often led to madness?
19. What medical aid did René Laënnec
invent in 1816?
20. When Florey and Chain were trying
to purify penicillin, what technology
was used by the scientists at Pfizer
to help them?
21. What was “trepanning”?
22. When was St. Bartholomew’s
hospital in London founded?
23. Before modern medicine, doctors
blamed disease on “miasma,” or bad
smells. True or False?
24. The acceptance of chloroform
in childbirth was helped by
which queen?
25. When were X-rays discovered?
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Internet and IT Pioneers

1. ARPANET was the world’s first 14. Who led the team that created one of
operational packet switching network, the first WWW browsers, Netscape?
and a precursor of the Internet. What
do the letters stand for? 15. Where does a plaque

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commemorating the “Birth of
2. To which US government department the Internet” stand?
was ARPANET attached?
16. In which year did Robert Cailliau
3. Which event sparked organize the first International
ARPANET’s creation? WWW Conference?

4. Who suggested that a computer
network be established to allow
ARPA research contractors to
communicate more easily?
5. The architect of ARPANET was
Paul Baran. True or False?
6. Who improved networking
technology with the invention
of the Ethernet?
7. What was Hawaii’s 1970s
computer network called?
17. Which year saw the rise in
“dot-com” companies?
18. In which year did the dot-com
bubble burst?
19. A new web model for the
exchange of information in
2004 was called what?
20. In 2009, the Global Language
Monitor declared “Web 2.0” to be
the one-millionth English word.
True or False?

8. What was the American 1970s

satellite network called?

9. Who wrote a Transmission

Control Protocol in 1974 that
meant different networks could
communicate with each other?

10. What is “Vint Cerf” also known as?

11. In which decade did most

universities and research-oriented
institutions have computers that
were connected to the Internet?

12. Who coined the term “Hypertext”?

13. What did hypertext go on to enable

the creation of?

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Chemistry

1. Who invented dynamite by 17. Which element has the atomic

combining unstable nitroglycerin symbol “Sn”?
and ground rock?
18. What is organic chemistry?
2. Which substance is H2O
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the chemical structure for? 19. What is the only metal that exists
in liquid form at room temperature?
3. What is “laughing gas” also
known as? 20. How many Nobel prizes was
Marie Curie awarded?
4. Which element must be
present in a compound for
it to be described as “organic”?

5. Which element has the atomic

symbol “Co”?

6. What is the name of the process

where a solid becomes a gas
without first becoming a liquid?

7. Which element has the atomic

symbol “K”?

8. What type of gas is helium?

9. What is the chemical formula

for salt?

10. A pH level of 14 would indicate

that a substance is highly acidic.
True or False?

11. What is added to iron to make steel?

12. Electrons carry a positive charge.

True or False?

13. What is the atomic symbol for gold?

14. What does “corrosive” mean?

15. What metal comes from bauxite?

16. What is the center of an atom called?

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Observing the Universe
1. What do we call the path of the
planets across the sky?
2. We measure the positions of the
stars with the coordinate system,
ascension, and declination. What
are the units for declination?
3. Two astronomical coordinates are
declination and RA. What does
“RA” stand for?
4. How far above Earth does
space start?
5. You can observe Pluto with the
naked eye. True or False?
6. Mizor and Alcor form a double
star in which constellation?
7. What is the brightest galaxy
in Ursa Major, when viewed
from Earth?
8. The stars Merak and Dubhe in
Ursa Major point toward which
other important star?
9. What is the name of the red
supergiant star found in the
constellation Orion?
10. What is the name of the
blue supergiant star in the
constellation Orion?
11. What is the catalog code for
the Orion nebula?
12. The stars in Orion’s belt point
to which star?
13. What is the apparent magnitude
of Sirius?
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14. How many constellations are
there in Earth’s sky?
15. Which lunar phase is the best
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time to observe the moon?
16. Which meteor shower is best
observed around mid-November?
17. Which is the largest planet in our
solar system?
18. What is the main advantage of a
catadioptric telescope?
19. What telescope aperture is needed
to view objects of apparent
magnitude of 14.7?
20. Where in the world is the largest
single-aperture telescope?
21. The heaviest meteorite on Earth
landed in Tanzania fewer than
80,000 years ago. True or False?
22. How many solar system planets
have rings?
23. What percentage of stars are more
luminous than the sun?
24. What wavelength does the Spitzer
Space Telescope observe in?
25. Which five planets can you see
with the naked eye?
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Science and Technology in History
1. Irene Joliot won the Nobel Prize
for chemistry in 1935. Who was
her mother?
2. Who set up the progressive
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academy called the Lyceum in
the 4th century bce?
3. Who wrote to the Royal Society in
1673 to tell them about his discovery
of microscopic organisms, which he
called “animalcules”?
4. Which Jewish scientist renounced
his German citizenship in 1933?
5. Who used instruments called
“astrolabes” and “sextants” during
the Middle Ages?
6. Where was the second nuclear bomb
to be used as a weapon dropped?
7. Who was responsible for
construction of the underground
sewer system that was opened in
London in 1865?
8. Where did Darwin find a range
of unique species that influenced
his thinking on the theory
of evolution?
9. What did Hermann Anschütz-
Kaempfe design in 1906?
10. Who died from pneumonia in
1626 after going out in the snow
to prove that freezing a chicken
could preserve it?
11. What word describes Charles
Goodyear’s treatment of rubber
to make it more elastic
and weatherproof?
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12. Which surgeon carried out the
first heart transplant?
13. Who first developed the
disposable razor?
14. What was the profession of Leon
Battista Alberti, who in 1450 invented
the first mechanical anemometer to
measure wind speed?
15. With what technology is Thomas
Savery associated?
16. Which piece of diving equipment
was invented by Jacques Cousteau?
17. What did the Salk vaccine
protect against?
18. What was a shadoof in ancient Egypt?
19. Which temperature-control device
contains a bimetallic strip?
20. Which mathematician worked out
the circumference and the diameter
of Earth in 240 bce?
21. Rosalind Franklin made a vital
contribution to the discovery
of what?
22. What recognition did Crick, Watson,
and Wilkins get for working on the
structure of DNA?
23. In which field of science did Ernest
Rutherford work?
24. Who classified bacteria into rods,
spheres, commas, and spirals?
25. The first Otis safety elevator was
in a bed factory. True or False?
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Under the Microscope

1. A flagellum helps a bacterium 15. Which tree has been used to

to do what? treat malaria?

2. Cyclops belongs to which group 16. Alexander Fleming is credited with

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of animals?
3. Which tiny creature causes the
skin disease scabies?
4. Bacillus are a type of what ?
discovering penicillin. In what year
did this happen?
17. What infective agent is thought
to cause the disease BSE (mad
cow disease)?

5. A vaccine for the plague was 18. Robert Koch is associated with
first used in what year? which animal disease?

6. The liver disease hepatitis is usually 19. Heliozoans live in fresh water and
caused by a virus. Which type of the sea. They are known by what
hepatitis is spread by contaminated other name?
food and water?
20. Mosquitoes pass on which parasite?
7. What do bacteriophage viruses do?

8. Which bacteria, found in

unpasteurized milk, should
pregnant women try to avoid?

9. Who performed the first

successful vaccination?

10. In what year was the last death

caused by the smallpox virus?

11. Which virus is associated with

the common cold?

12. What illness is caused by the

Bordetella pertussis bacterium?

13. To what class of organisms does

the microorganism paramecium
belong to?

14. What disease is named after

the town in Connecticut in
which it was first recognized
in 1975?

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Famous Formulas and Equations

1. Which scientist came up with the 14. For what is this the formula:
equation E = mc2? C = 2πr?

2. What is the mathematical formula 15. The cornerstone of classical

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a 2+ b2 = c2? mechanics is the formula F = ma;

3. Of what is 3.14159 the most
accurate approximation?
4. In math, e = 2.71828. But what is e?
what is it known as?
16. How would this formula be written:
Electrical Energy = Power (Kw)
x Time (h)?

5. Which mathematical 17. With which scientist are the

formula expresses the fact that mathematical constants a and
differentiation and integration are d associated?
inverse operations of each other?
18. The golden ratio w is a number
6. What is the scientific equation often used in the world of physics.
F = -kx? True or False?

7. What is Ax = b? 19. What object did Archimedes

use to find out its correct
8. What scientific equation volume in water?
is V = RI?
20. For what does E = mc2 stand?
9. Which famous mathematical
principle did Archimedes come
up with in the bath?

10. As what is Bernoulli’s law of fluid

dynamics more commonly known?

11. Scientist John Dalton once proposed

that each chemical element is
composed of atoms. What name
was given to his theory?

12. In science, Fourier’s law of

heat conduction deals with the
transmission of heat in materials.
True or False?

13. Who used four equations to

formulate a unified description
of electricity and magnetism
in 1862?

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Unnatural Disasters
1. What disaster took place on
April 26, 1986, in Ukraine?
2. What is the size of the exclusion
zone that still surrounds the
site today?
3. The largest loss of life caused by a
maritime disaster during peacetime
was the loss of the Filipino ferry
Dona Paz in 1987. How many
people died?
4. What was the Bhopal disaster
of 1984?
5. How many people did London’s
Great Smog of 1952 kill?
6. What form of disaster struck
Fukushima, Japan, in 2011?
7. How long did the 2003 fire at
the Iraqi Al-Mishraq sulfur
plant burn for?
8. Which sea has shrunk by
90 percent since the Russian
government diverted rivers
in the 1960s?
9. In which year was a
poisonous plume of the toxin
tetrachlorodibenzoparadioxin
released from a pesticide plant
in Seveso, Italy?
10. How many animals were
slaughtered to prevent the
toxin from entering the food chain?
11. What happened in 1979 at
the Three Mile Island nuclear
reactor in Pennsylvania?
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12. What caused the Halifax Explosion
of December 6, 1917?
13. Which space shuttle disintegrated
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on re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere,
killing all seven astronauts
on board?
14. What caused 1,426 deaths in a
pedestrian tunnel in Mecca in 1990?
15. What caused more than 800 deaths
in the Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne
rail disaster of 1917?
16. Where did the Benxihu Colliery
explosion take place, killing 1,549
people in 1942?
17. The biggest loss of life at sea was
the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
during World War II. More than
9,500 people lost their lives. True
or False?
18. More than 600 oil wells were set on
fire in Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf
War. How long did they burn?
19. In which body of water is the Gyre
Garbage Patch, a swirling mass of
mainly plastic trash that can be seen
from space?
20. In which year did the tanker Exxon
Valdez run aground in Alaska,
spilling more than 10.8 million
gallons (40.9 million liters) of oil?
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Expert Cars
1. In which year was the current Alfa
Romeo logo introduced?
2. What motoring term did the Ford
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Mustang inspire?
3. In which year did Ford purchase
Aston Martin?
4. What was the winner of the Top
Gear Car of the Decade award
for the 2000s?
5. Which constructor won World
Champion team and driver in its
first full Formula 1 season?
6. Juan Manuel Fangio is the only
Argentine driver to have won
the Argentine Grand Prix.
True or False?
7. With which soccer team is Fiat
traditionally associated?
8. Which manufacturer makes the
Bentley car?
9. Which was the only major US car
maker to increase sales during the
1958 recession?
10. How many Formula 1 drivers
have won four or more World
Championships?
11. Which car manufacturer makes
the Yaris?
12. Which Citroën was styled as
a successor to the classic
Citroën DS?
13. What was the first turbocharged
car to win a Grand Prix?
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14. From 1987 to 1989, the Ferrari F40
was the world’s fastest production
car. True or False?
15. In the Toyota MR2, what does
“MR2” stand for?
16. What was the winner of the Top
Gear Car of the Decade award
for the 1990s?
17. Which Italian car was featured in
the Miami Vice TV series?
18. Which car was dubbed the
“mini E-type”?
19. In which year was the Chevrolet
Corvette first manufactured?
20. What was the first four-wheeled,
gas-engine vehicle to reach
10 mph (16 kmph)?
21. In which county is the manufacturer
of the Koenigsegg Agera RS based?
22. What was the first road car to
exceed 200 mph (322 kmph)?
23. The Dodge Viper SRT-10 (Mk II)
has a larger engine than the Bugatti
Veyron. True or False?
24. The first Indianapolis 500 race
took place in which year?
25. What was the last rear-wheel-drive
Lamborghini supercar still being
sold in the new millennium?
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The Human Story

1. What period followed the extinction 13. Where was the first Homo erectus
of the dinosaurs? fossil found?

2. Which of our ancestors had the 14. Homo antecessor may have been the

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smallest proportion of body mass first Western European hominin.
composed by the brain at just 1.2%? What does this name mean?

3. Primates, the species that 15. When did Homo heidelbergensis

includes humans, are arboreal.
What does this mean?
4. How different in DNA percentage
terms are humans from chimpanzees?
5. One of the earliest species of two-
legged hominin was the Orrorin
tugenensis. What biological
evidence suggests this?
6. When was Australopithecus
anamensis declared a species?
7. The best preserved specimen of
Paranthropus aethiopicus is
known as what?
8. Why was Paranthropus boisei given
the nickname “Nutcracker Man”?
colonize Europe?
16. Where is the site where the remains
of Homo floresiensis were found?
17. What theory is given to explain
the shrinking of Homo florensiensis
compared to its mainland relatives?
18. Where is the Neander Valley,
where the partial remains of a
Homo neanderthalensis were found?
19. The first modern humans are
known as Homo sapiens. What
does this term mean?
20. What feature is present in no other
hominin other than Homo sapiens?

9. Which hominin was known as the

“Handy Man”?

10. Which species left 1.5-million-year-

old footprint trails in Kenya,
providing evidence for the oldest
humanlike feet?

11. What tool first appears

1.65 million years ago in the
record known as the Acheulean
stone-tool industry?

12. What do anthropologists think

the species Homo georgicus
was the first to do?

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To the South Pole

1. Which form of animal transportation
is no longer used in Antarctica?
2. When did humans first see Antarctica?
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14. How many International Polar Years
have there been to promote research
and cooperation?
15. Which is the only penguin that

3. A mountain range divides breeds in the Antarctic winter?

Antarctica. True or False?
4. What is the permanent population
of Antarctica?
5. What percentage of Antarctic ice is
contained in the Ross Ice Shelf?
6. What is the name of the natural light
display in the sky that is only visible
from South America, Antarctica,
and Australia?
16. There are more hours of sunshine in
the Antarctic Peninsula over a year
than in most equatorial countries.
True or False?
17. At the South Pole, how many days
per year does the sun not rise?
18. The South Geomagnetic Pole
and the South Pole are at the
same place. True or False?

7. The largest Antarctic iceberg 19. Is Antarctica water surrounded by

ever seen was bigger than Belgium. land or land surrounded by sea?
True or False?
20. Which is colder, the Antarctic
8. The continent of Antarctica has or the Arctic?
always been at the South Pole?
True or False?

9. Who led the first expedition to

record a sighting of Antarctica?

10. By what percentage does the size

of Antarctica increase when the
sea around the continent freezes
during winter?

11. How do ice cores help scientists to

understand past climates?

12. When did the Antarctic Treaty,

which provides for international
cooperation and bans exploitation,
go into effect?

13. Which type of ice does not

occur at sea?

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The Final Frontier
1. “I don’t think the human race will
survive the next thousand years,
unless we spread into space.” Who
said this?
2. Used continuously since 1957, what
is the world’s largest launch site?
3. When did NASA’s space shuttle
first take to the air?
4. What does the acronym “PAM”
stand for?
5. The laws of gravity mean that the
farther out a satellite orbits,
the slower it moves through
space. True or False?
6. How many Langrarian points are
there in the Earth-moon-sun system?
7. The American space station Skylab
orbited Earth from 1973 to 1979. How
long did its first crew stay on board?
8. Who or what are Zvezda and Kibo?
9. Approximately how many times a
day does the International Space
Station orbit Earth?
10. What is Alexei Leonov’s claim
to fame?
11. What was NASA’s space satellite
Explorer 6 the first to do in 1959?
12. In the Apollo spacecraft, there
were three modules: the command
module, the lunar module,
and what?
13. Where was Apollo 11’s Eagle’s
landing site?
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QUIZ 88
14. Which Apollo lunar mission
took the first roving vehicle to
the moon, in 1971?
15. What was the name of the
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first mission to take samples
of comet particles?
16. What was Sojourner?
17. To which body in the solar system
was the Huygens probe sent in 2005?
18. Voyager 2 launched in 1977 and was
still active in 2020. True or False?
19. The New Horizons spacecraft
completed its mission in 2015 with
a flyby of which body?
20. ESA’s Rosetta Mission to Comet
67P/C-G ended its mission of
exploration in 2015 by crashing
on the comet. True or False?
21. Which US president signed the
National Aeronautics and Space
Act, leading to the birth of NASA?
22. Who invented the term “Big Bang”?
23. About how many times bigger is
the sun than the moon?
24. Which planet has been visited by
the MESSENGER craft?
25. What was the average speed of
the Mir Space Station?
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It’s Elementary

1. What is the chemical symbol 16. When hydrogen and carbon

of the element gold? atoms are joined, what ending does
the new compound have?
2. What is atomic mass?
17. Which English chemist
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3. What does “pH” mean? discovered oxygen?

4. What material were electrical 18. To which metal group does iron
insulators originally made from? belong: alkali, transition, or
inner transition?
5. Carbon forms allotropes.
True or False? 19. What is the most common element
in the human body?
6. When hydrogen and nitrogen are
mixed, what is produced? 20. If a chemical’s name ends in “-ide,”
how many elements is it made of?
7. Who won a Nobel Prize in 1954
for his work in quantum mechanics
in chemistry?

8. Who drew up the first periodic table

of elements?

9. Which element is the best conductor

of electricity?

10. What is the most common element

in Earth’s crust?

11. When sodium and chlorine

are combined, what sort of
bond is created?

12. What three constituents do

molecules contain?

13. Ammonia was used as an ingredient

in explosives during World War I.
True or False?

14. What is “oil of vitriol” known

as today?

15. Whose law refers to the relationship

between pressure and volume?

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Body of Knowledge
1. Which cells are found in your
fingertips and help you feel
light pressure?
2. You use only 10 percent of your
brain. True or False?
3. Adrenaline makes you wide-eyed,
alert, and ready for action. Where
are the glands that make it?
4. What does peroxisome do
inside cells?
5. Which part of your brain can you
blame for putting you in a bad mood?
6. Which of your muscles is
responsible for pulling up the rib
cage when you breathe?
7. The unusual ability to see smells,
hear colors, and smell sounds is
known as what?
8. The three semicircular canals in the
inner ear detect movement. Which
part of the semicircular canals
detects vertical movement?
9. The liver is the largest internal
organ and performs more than 500
jobs. True or False?
10. When someone talks too much, what
type of joint is he or she overusing?
11. The largest muscle in the human
body can be found in the what?
12. The medical term for a “nose
job” is what?
13. More than half of your blood is
plasma. True or False?
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14. Which metal has been found
to have an antibacterial effect
and is sometimes used in
wound dressings?
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15. Which part of the body is most
sensitive to heat and cold?
16. What helps prevent us from
suffering the same disease twice?
17. There are around 30 trillion red
blood cells in the human body.
True or False?
18. What cells secrete insulin?
19. What chemical causes a fever?
20. A dream can trigger a sneeze.
True or False?
21. What else did medieval doctors
do to the patient’s urine when they
were trying to diagnose an illness,
beside study its color?
22. Blood transfusions did not work
before the 20th century; what
happened in 1901 that made
them possible?
23. What medicine was discovered in
mold in 1928?
24. From which flower do we get the
drugs opium and morphine?
25. In which part of the body is
the vena cava?
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ART &
LITERATURE
ART & LITERATURE

Discover how much of a culture

vulture you are with these quizzes
covering art and literature from
the past to the present,
the classic to the avant-garde.
See if your favorites are here and
learn about new favorites.

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Shakespeare
1. In which town was William
Shakespeare born?
2. William Shakespeare was
born and died on April 26.
True or False?
3. In which play do we meet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
4. Which monarch ruled England
at the start of Shakespeare’s
career as a playwright?
5. How many plays were published
in Shakespeare’s first folio: 10,
34, 36, 50?
6. Complete the title of this play:
Much Ado About…
7. Which Shakespearean theater
was reconstructed on London’s
South Bank in 1997?
8. Which tragic play features the
characters Iago and Desdemona?
9. Which play features two “star-
crossed” lovers?
10. Shakespeare wrote three different
types of plays: comedies, tragedies,
and what else?
11. Which play was set on a
remote island?
12. Shakespeare invented the word
“assassination.” True or False?
13. The average adult today uses
only 3,000 words. How many
did Shakespeare use across
his plays?
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14. Which Roman general neglects
his soldierly duties after falling
for Cleopatra’s charms?
15. The Three Witches appear in which
Shakespeare play?
16. Who falls in love with Nick Bottom
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
17. What is the unrhymed poetry in
Shakespeare’s plays called?
18. Which of Shakespeare’s plays takes
place in the “Forest of Arden”?
19. Which play includes the Battle
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of Agincourt?
20. How many lines does a sonnet have?
21. What is the name of Hamlet’s mother?
22. What was the name of
Shakespeare’s wife?
23. How many sonnets did
Shakespeare write?
24. Which of Shakespeare’s
plays is the shortest?
25. Which play does this quote come
from: “If music be the food of
love, play on”?
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Best-Selling Novels
1. Which best-selling trilogy was
inspired by competitive reality
TV shows and news coverage
of the war in Iraq?
2. Which British author won the
Man Booker prize twice, for
Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring up
the Bodies (2012)?
3. Who is the author of the
best-selling children’s series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
4. Which best-selling novel by
Sally Rooney was made into
a TV series in 2020?
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5. Snuff is the 39th book in which
long-running fantasy series?
6. Following the success of the
Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling
wrote which best-selling novel
for adults?
7. To date, the Fifty Shades trilogy
has sold just under 50 million
copies worldwide. True or False?
8. Bella, Edward, and Jacob are
the main characters in which
popular young-adult series?
9. The Millennium Series, a trilogy
of crime-fiction novels focused
on Lisbeth Salander and Mikael
Blomkvist, was originally
published in which language?
10. The Guinness Book of World
Records holds the world record
for best-selling copyrighted
book series of all time. True
or False?
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11. Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants
was written as part of the National
Novel Writing Month online
challenge. True or False?
12. David Nicholl’s One Day was
adapted into a film in 2011. Who
played Emma?
13. What was the first blockbuster title
written by Dan Brown?
14. Which celebrity chef’s 15-minute-
meal cookbook has topped
best-seller charts?
15. Which Margaret Atwood novel was
made into a popular TV series?
16. Originally published in 1937, which
novel hit the best-sellers’ list again
following excitement about its
movie release?
17. Who is the author of the best-selling
A Song of Ice and Fire series?
18. Stephen King’s 11/22/63 revisits
the assassination of US President
Abraham Lincoln. True or False?
19. Whose novels feature a forensic
psychologist named Alex Cross?
20. Which political figure wrote a
memoir called Becoming?
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Word on the Street: Authors
1. Who wrote the thrillers in which
the agent 007 appears?
2. Which 2001 book by Yann Martel
was made into a film by Ang Lee
in 2012?
3. Who is the author responsible for
introducing the world in 2007 to
vampires who sparkle in sunlight?
4. What is the name of the detective
in Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled
crime novel The Big Sleep?
5. Which American author’s long list
of international best-sellers have
seen him become known as the
king of the legal thriller genre?
6. Who wrote the novel Atonement,
later turned into the multi-Oscar-
nominated film starring Keira
Knightley and James McAvoy?
7. Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye,
a modern classic about angst-ridden
teen Holden Caulfield?
8. Alice Walker became the first black
woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction in 1983. With which novel
did she win?
9. In which great novel will you
find the line “all animals are
equal, but some animals are
more equal than others”?
10. Which magical land behind
a wardrobe was created by
C. S. Lewis?
11. Who is the author of the Memory
Man series of thrillers?
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12. Which novel by Cormac McCarthy
was adapted into an Oscar-winning
film in 2007?
13. In French literature, who
caused a stir with his modern
classic L’Etranger?
14. Which film was originally a
novel by popular British author
Nick Hornby?
15. Phillip Pullman’s His Dark
Materials trilogy begins with
Northern Lights and is followed
by which book?
16. Which murder-mystery writer
ART & LITERATURE
created the legendary detective
Hercule Poirot?
17. Which popular travel writer
famously took a step into history
writing with A Short History of
Nearly Everything?
18. Which children’s author wrote
books about witches, peaches,
chocolate, and twits?
19. Which work by J. R. R. Tolkien was
published posthumously by his son
Christopher in 1977?
20. Terry Pratchett is the author of
one of the most popular and long-
running fantasy series ever, but
what is it called?
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Famous Artists

1. Which Italian Renaissance artist 15. The Scream was painted by

sculpted David? which artist?

2. Which brand of soup was used in
a screenprint by Andy Warhol?
3. A cottage in Suffolk was featured
in a painting by which John?
4. Pablo Picasso was part of which
artistic movement?
5. Which English artist produced
the satirical work called A
Rake’s Progress?
6. Which ancient civilization was
ART & LITERATURE
16. Who famously painted his garden?
17. Hans Holbein was most famous
for which type of painting?
18. What nationality was artist
Henri Matisse?
19. What form of art is Henry Moore
famous for?
20. Mark Rothko is known for what
style of painting?
21. Which artist had an exhibition

known for its red-figure vases?

7. Johannes Vermeer’s most
famous work, Girl with a Pearl
Earring, was sold in Holland for
the equivalent of 32 cents. True
or False?
8. Vincent van Gogh was famous
for painting which flowers?
9. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
10. Which surrealist artist was
noted for his moustache?
of his iPad paintings?
22. Which artist is most associated
with pointillism?
23. Which artist is nicknamed
“Jack the Dripper”?
24. What is the artist Alphonse Mucha
best known for?
25. Which artist is known for painting
Parisian nightlife?

11. J. M. W. Turner was a

Pre-Raphaelite painter.
True or False?

12. Who sculpted The Kiss?

13. When did the Romantic

Movement start?

14. Antony Gormley’s large sculpture

in Gateshead, England, is called the
Angel in the North. True or False?

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Roald Dahl

1. What shop did Mrs. Pratchett run? 18. What does Mr. Twit never wash?

2. What is Matilda’s favorite pastime?
3. What is the BFG’s favorite drink?
4. Name the three farmers in
Fantastic Mr. Fox.
5. What animal is featured in
Esio Trot?
6. What does Danny’s father hunt?
7. Who runs the chocolate factory?
19. Name the boy in The Giraffe and
The Pelly and Me.
20. What is a Muggle-Wump?
21. In the Magic Finger, why is the
Gregg family punished?
22. Who does George use his
marvelous medicine on?
23. How do the aunts in James and
the Giant Peach die?

8. Name one of James Henry 24. In Matilda, how is Miss Honey

ART & LITERATURE

Trotter’s aunts. related to Miss Trunchbull?

9. What did Roald Dahl always eat 25. What do square sweets do?
after lunch?

10. Name Roald Dahl’s own

favorite book.

11. Who is Matilda’s headmistress?

12. Who illustrated many of Roald

Dahl’s books?

13. Which book (considered his

first) was inspired by Dahl’s
Royal Air Force service?

14. What was Roald Dahl’s

favorite color?

15. What special language does

the BFG speak?

16. In which book do the Oompa-

Loompas appear?

17. Who is the terrifying ruler in

The Witches?

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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
1. The Pevensie children are sent to
the country to escape what?
2. Susan is the oldest of the Pevensie
children. True or False?
3. The professor in The Lion, the
Witch and the Wardrobe is called
Professor Digory what?
4. When Lucy first meets Mr. Tumnus,
what is he carrying?
5. In which year was The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe
first published?
6. The children don’t believe Lucy
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when she tells them about her visit
to Narnia. True or False?
7. What does Edmund eat when he
first meets the White Witch?
8. Which animal is the Chief of the
Secret Police and sent to hunt
the children?
9. Father Christmas gives all the
children gifts. What gift does
he give Peter?
10. Father Christmas also gives
Mr. and Mrs. Beaver presents.
What does Mrs. Beaver receive?
11. Whose life does Aslan bargain
for with the White Witch?
12. What is the first indication that
the White Witch’s hold over
Narnia is breaking?
13. What does the White Witch do
to Mr. Tumnus?
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14. What did the Beavers give the
children for dessert at their
first meeting?
15. Aslan sacrifices himself on
the what?
16. Who eventually slays the
White Witch?
17. Who does Peter save from being
killed by a wolf?
18. After Edmund has been crowned,
he is known as Edmund the Valiant.
True or False?
19. Where are the children crowned as
Kings and Queens of Narnia?
20. The children are chasing after which
animal when they find themselves
back in the wardrobe?
21. Who tells the children about Aslan?
22. What is a faun?
23. How many thrones are at
Cair Paravel?
24. What is the spell that the White
Witch casts on Narnia?
25. What color are the White
Witch’s reindeer?
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Harry Potter

1. In the first book, how old is
Harry when he discovers that
he is a wizard?
2. What is the name of Ron’s
pet rat?
3. What is the emblem of
Gryffindor house?
4. In which shop can wizards
and witches buy their wands
in Diagon Alley?
5. What is the name of the magical
mirror that shows people the
deepest desires of their hearts?
14. Who shows Harry Tom
Riddle’s diary?
15. Who was the prisoner of Azkaban?
16. Where did Peter Pettigrew kill
Cedric Diggory?
17. “Avada Kedavra” is one of the
Unforgivable Curses. True or False?
18. Who is Rita Skeeter?
19. How many staircases are
there at Hogwarts?
20. Which language other than

ART & LITERATURE

English can both Harry and
6. When is Harry Potter’s birthday? Voldemort speak?

7. The Hogwarts Express departs
from which platform at London’s
King’s Cross station?
8. What is the name of the
creature that feeds off
positive human emotion?
21. Which pets are not officially
allowed at Hogwarts?
22. What kind of animal is Trevor?
23. Which book did Harry get the
name of his owl from?

9. What is the name of the magical
plant that allows a wizard or
witch to breathe underwater?
10. Hermione Granger’s Patronus
Charm is in the shape of
which animal?
24. What was the name of
Hermione’s cat?
25. The word “muggle” is now in
the Oxford English Dictionary.
True or False?

11. Who are the Muggle aunt and

uncle with whom Harry lives
every summer?

12. Who kills Dumbledore at the

end of the sixth book?

13. Ron has seven siblings. True

or False?

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Artists’ Handbook

1. Which is NOT a primary color: 16. Tempera, a principal painting

blue, red, orange, yellow?
2. Which is NOT a secondary color:
purple, green, blue, orange?
3. Which is not a paint: acrylics
or pastels?
4. What term is used to describe the
assembly of assorted materials to
form a composition?
5. What color is the opposite of purple
on the color wheel?
6. What was traditionally made from
ART & LITERATURE
medium before oil, was traditionally
made from which food?
17. What are colors across from each
other on the color wheel called?
18. The red pigment carmine comes
from what?
19. What is the artistic tradition called
that uses small ceramic tiles to
create a pattern or picture?
20. What kind of gum is used as a
binder for watercolor painting?

thin peeled willow twigs?

7. What do artists do with

a medium?

8. What is the name of the object

that artists traditionally use to
mix paint on?

9. Mixing blue and yellow paint

makes what color?

10. Intaglio is a type of what?

11. What must you do to a fabric canvas

before you use it for painting?

12. What color is made by mixing

red, yellow, and blue?

13. Crayons are soluble in water.

True or False?

14. Which of these pencils’ lead is

harder: 2H or H?

15. Red, orange, and yellow are warm

or cool colors?

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Books with Bite

1. Which is the second book in 13. In True Blood, what is Sookie

Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series? Stackhouse’s “gift”?

2. Which of Anne Rice’s vampire 14. Which classic novel is mentioned

novels was made into a film several times in Stephenie
starring Tom Cruise? Meyer’s Eclipse?

3. Does the Stephen King novel 15. In Charlaine Harris’s books, what
Carrie feature a vampire? is True Blood?

4. Who wrote Dracula? 16. The character Frankenstein in the

5. The lyrics to “Moon Over Bourbon
Street” by Sting were inspired by
Anne Rice’s Interview with the
Vampire. True or False?
novel Frankenstein is a vampire.
True or False?
17. In Breaking Dawn, what do Edward
and Bella call their child?

6. In Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight 18. Who created the fictional vampire

ART & LITERATURE

series, which vampire falls in
love with Bella Swan?
7. In which seaside town is Dracula’s
boat shipwrecked when it comes
to England?
8. Which author wrote the books
that inspired the TV series
True Blood?
Lestat de Lioncourt?
19. Bela Lugosi was famous for his film
role in Dracula or Frankenstein?
20. Bram Stoker’s Dracula slept in a
four-poster bed, not a coffin.
True or False?

9. Which bloodthirsty real-life person

is believed to have inspired the
character Dracula?

10. Where are the book and TV series

The Vampire Diaries set?

11. In the Twilight series, which

type of animal blood does
Edward Cullen enjoy drinking
most (after human)?

12. In literature, many things are said

to kill the average vampire. Which
of these probably wouldn’t: garlic
bread, a crucifix, sunlight?

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Children’s Classics

1. Which children’s classic by 13. Who wrote The Railway Children?

J. M. Barrie features a boy
who won’t grow up?
2. Which animals are the main
characters in Watership Down?
14. What creature is Jack London’s
White Fang?
15. Where does Peter Pan live?

3. In Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle 16. In King Solomon’s Mines by

Book, who is the Man-Cub’s H. Rider Haggard, where are
best friend? the mines?

4. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 17. In which book do Lucy, Edmund,

what does the Tin Woodman Susan, and Peter Pevensie appear?
hope to get in Emerald City?
18. In The Merry Adventures of Robin
5. What Katy Did… ? Complete Hood, what does the Sheriff of
the title of the book that follows Nottingham offer as a prize to lure
ART & LITERATURE

What Katy Did and What Katy
Did at School.
6. In A Christmas Carol by Dickens,
Bob Cratchit says the words,
“God bless us, everyone.”
True or False?
7. Which book features the character
Christopher Robin?
8. Anne Shirley is the main character
in which children’s classic?
Robin Hood to the archery match?
19. Where is Heidi set?
20. Who wrote The Water Babies?
21. In which book does the Waterbury
family star?
22. In Little Women, what does Jo sell
to help her sick father?
23. Who wrote the The Secret Garden?

9. In Peter Pan, what does Peter have 24. Which family does Mary Poppins
to sprinkle on the children before go to work for?
they can fly?
25. Who wrote Black Beauty?
10. Which novel features Tweedledee
and Tweedledum?

11. In Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan

Swift, where does Gulliver find
himself a giant?

12. Treasure Island’s Long John Silver

is also known as the “Sea Cook”
and what else?

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Contemporary Art

1. Tracey Emin was born in Margate. 14. What are the first names of the
True or False? Chapman brothers?

2. Emin’s Everyone I Have Ever Slept 15. Much of the Chapman

with 1963–1995 features what?
3. Which Saatchi brother has been
a key figure in contemporary
art collection?
4. Which pop artist was famous
for creating silkscreen “diptychs,”
or collages, of Marilyn Monroe?
brothers’ work was destroyed
by what in 2004?
16. The Turner Prize is named in
honor of the artist J. M. W Turner.
True or False?
17. When was the Turner
Prize inaugurated?

5. Which band’s video for 18. Taylor-Wood made a video

“Country House” did Damien installation starring which
Hirst direct? sleeping soccer player?

ART & LITERATURE

6. Grayson Perry is renowned for 19. Hirst’s For The Love of God
his work in which medium? features 8,601 what embedded
in a platinum skull?
7. Who made a cast of his head
using his own blood? 20. Whose work is featured in
a book called Wall and Piece?
8. Which was the first US city to
feature “CowParade”—colorful
cow sculptures dotted around
the streets—in 1999?

9. Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility

of Death in the Mind of Someone
Living features which animal?

10. In which year did Tracey Emin

make My Bed?

11. Which revolutionary did

Gavin Turk cast himself as?

12. Which iconic art gallery in

New York City was designed by
architect Frank Lloyd Wright?

13. Sam Taylor-Wood directed a

film about which Beatle?

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Aesop’s Fables

1. Which fable is associated with: 13. Androcles removes a thorn from

“Slow and steady wins the race”? the paw of which kind of animal?

2. Which tale ends with: “Even when
liars tell the truth, they are never
believed. The liar will lie once,
twice, and then perish when he
tells the truth”?
14. Where does Androcles meet
the animal again?
15. In The Dog and Its Reflection, what
does the dog lose in the water?

3. In which story does a bird
drop pebbles into a jug to enable
it to drink?
4. The moral of Ant and the
Grasshopper is: “To work today
is to eat tomorrow.” True or False?
5. In which fable does the bird
ART & LITERATURE
16. Which fable suggests that: “Quality
is better than quantity”?
17. After being unable to reach
some tasty-looking grapes, what
does the fox decide they are?
18. What popular expression is

taken from the fable The Fox

learn to: “Beware of flatterers”? and the Grapes?

6. In which story do the characters 19. “Enemies’ promises are made to

learn they could achieve more by be broken” comes from which fable?
working together?
20. Frauds and liars are always
7. What is the moral of The Bear discovered eventually and pay for
and the Travelers? their actions accordingly. Which
fable does this moral belong to?
8. Who delivers the moral in
The Bear and the Travelers fable?

9. “Honesty is the best policy”

is usually associated with
which fable?

10. Who was so busy planning what

to do with her money that she
dropped the pail?

11. The moral of the story The

Milkmaid and the Pail is what?

12. In which fable does one character

prevent the other characters from
having something that he himself
has no use for?

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Picasso

1. Picasso’s father’s name was 15. What political ideology was

Ruiz y Blasco. True or False? Picasso associated with?

2. How old was Picasso when his
father felt he had surpassed
him in artistic talent?
3. Which was Picasso’s first “period”?
16. Who did Picasso always play in
his film appearances?
17. During which years did Picasso
produce most of his ceramics?

4. In which year was Picasso born? 18. Picasso once said: “Art is a truth
that makes us realize the lie.”
5. Which Greek painter was a great True or False?
early influence on Picasso?
19. Picasso’s “African” period lasted
6. With whom did Picasso share an for how long?
apartment when he moved to Paris?
20. Where can Picasso’s giant sculpture
7. Where was Picasso born?

ART & LITERATURE

the Bust of Sylvette be found?

8. Of which magazine did Picasso 21. Which mythological creature did

publish five issues, featuring Picasso paint a lot in the 1930s?
portraits of the poor?
22. Where is the Picasso Museum?
9. What is the name of the painting
Picasso did in response to the 23. When and where did Picasso die?
bombing of a Spanish town?
24. Which artist did Picasso declare
10. American art collectors Leo and was his “one and only master”?
Gertrude Stein were great admirers
of Picasso’s work. True or False? 25. How old was Picasso when he
finished his first painting?
11. Which artist developed Cubism
alongside Picasso?

12. Which of Picasso’s mistresses

appears in many of his
“Rose” paintings?

13. What alternative art form did Picasso

pursue between 1935 and 1959?

14. In 1944, Picasso began a love

affair with a young student named
Françoise Gilot. What was the age
difference between them?

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Degas

1. One of the founders of 16. Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen

Impressionism, Degas preferred is a sculpture by Degas. What
to be called a what? is it made of?

2. Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas was 17. In which year did Degas die?

born into a middle-class family.
What was the actual family name?
3. In which year was Degas born?
4. Degas was half French and half what?
18. Impressionism originated in
the 1860s. True or False?
19. What happened to Degas in his
later years?

5. What drink is shown being consumed 20. Degas painted half of his works
in his 1875 masterpiece? on the subject of what?

6. What was Degas’s first masterpiece? 21. Degas created a set of paintings
about which American city?
7. In what branch of the military did
ART & LITERATURE

Degas enlist at the outbreak of the 22. Degas made many paintings of
Franco-Prussian War in 1870? which animal?

8. Where in America did Degas 23. Walter Sickert was a close friend
begin an extended stay in 1872? of Degas. True or False?

9. Degas painted ballerinas because 24. Degas was greatly influenced by

such works sold well. True or False? Japanese prints. True or False?

10. Why did Degas leave many of his 25. Degas married Mary Cassatt.
late works unfinished? True or False?

11. Degas joined forces with which

group of young artists in 1874?

12. Degas often painted horse races.

True or False?

13. During which years did Degas

develop a passion for photography?

14. In what kind of light would Degas

often photograph his subjects?

15. In which European country did

Degas spend a lot of time from
1854 to 1859?

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Which Novel Am I?
1. Which F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
is mainly set in West Egg during
the Roaring Twenties?
2. Which Miguel de Cervantes novel
is about a gentle knight and his
servant Sancho Panza?
3. Daniel Defoe’s novel Captain
Singleton describes the life
of a shipwrecked sailor. True
or False?
4. Which Mary Shelley title
was written as the result of
a competition?
5. Cathy and Heathcliff play
out their destinies in which
Gothic thriller?
6. “Call me Ishmael” begins
which tale of maritime madness?
7. Which story sends its main
character down a rabbit hole?
8. Which Fyodor Dostoyevsky
novel details Rodion Raskolnikov’s
moral dilemma?
9. Which Mark Twain title recounts
Jim and Huck’s adventures on
the Mississippi?
10. Evelyn Waugh’s essay on
Fleet Street is called what?
11. Winston Smith’s struggle against
totalitarianism is told in which
novel by George Orwell?
12. Holden Caulfield goes on a
personal journey for a week in
this J. D. Salinger classic.
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13. Which Joseph Heller novel details
a no-win wartime situation?
14. Three stories about being down
and out in the Big Smoke are
featured in Paul Auster’s what?
15. This savage story of boys on an
island is William Golding’s what?
16. V. S. Naipaul’s uneasy novel set in
revolutionary Africa is called what?
17. No literary list would be complete
without this J. R. R. Tolkien trilogy.
18. A bleak allegory about apartheid is
ART & LITERATURE
J. M. Coetzee’s what?
19. Franz Kafka’s enigmatic tale of
Josef K is called what?
20. Leo Tolstoy’s tortured tale of a
married woman’s passion for
a younger man is called what?
21. What is Hilary Mantel’s first
novel in the trilogy about
Thomas Cromwell?
22. What was Maya Angelou’s
debut novel?
23. This Jane Austen novel features
the Woodhouse family.
24. This Alice Walker novel won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
25. In which fictional English county
are Anthony Trollope’s clerical
chronicles set?
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Great Artists

1. Which artist famously damaged 13. Which Russian’s stained-glass

his ear? windows and religious scenes
helped him become one of the most
2. Where was Leonardo da Vinci born? successful 20th-century artists?

3. Which Leonardo da Vinci work
sold for $450 million in 2017,
making it then the world’s most
expensive painting?
4. Which contemporary artist was
commissioned to design the cover
for the December 1985 issue of
the French edition of Vogue?
5. The images we today associate
with Tudor monarchs like Henry
ART & LITERATURE
14. Which genre of art features colorful,
brash paintings, often inspired by
comic strips and advertising?
15. Whose abstract, dreamlike
paintings often featured clocks,
elephants, and eggs?
16. Urban landscapes and “matchstick
men” populate the works of which
English artist?
17. Monet and Renoir pioneered which

VIII come from portraits painted

by which 16th-century artist? 19th-century art movement featuring
shimmering outdoor scenes, bold
6. Which 19th-century English artist colors, and little detail?
is known for studies of the East
Anglian landscape and rural scenes? 18. Who painted the ceiling of
the Sistine Chapel within the
7. Which French artist is best known Vatican City?
for his portraits of ballerinas?
19. How many paintings did Vincent
8. Vincent van Gogh’s most famous van Gogh sell in his lifetime?
painting is known as Starry what?
20. Which French artist left his home
9. Théothile Steinlen’s 1896 to paint in Polynesia?
advertisement for a Parisian cabaret
has now been immortalized in a
popular poster. What is it called?

10. Which 19th-century artist stated

that “We all stem from Pissarro,”
referring to the French Impressionist
artist Camille Pissarro?

11. Who painted The Scream?

12. Which artist is often credited

with painting the first purely
abstract works?

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All about Novels

1. Who wrote Wuthering Heights? 15. Which novel, published in 1920,

2. The Woman in White is considered
to be one of the very first mystery
novels. Who wrote it?
3. What are the names of the main
lovers in Doctor Zhivago?
4. In which country is Wide
Sargasso Sea set?
5. Lady Chatterley’s Lover was not
openly published in the UK until
which year?
6. Jane Austen wrote a novel called
20. How old was Mary Shelley when
is a sequel to The Rainbow?
16. The Count of Monte Cristo was
written by Benjamin Disraeli.
True or False?
17. Edna Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize
for which novel?
18. What was the title of the first
version of Pride and Prejudice
published in 1796?
19. In Lord of the Flies, who heads
up the group of hunters?

ART & LITERATURE

Ruth. True or False?
7. Much of The Wings of the Dove
is set in which Italian city?
8. Pip, a young orphan, is featured
in which Dickens novel?
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray was
Oscar Wilde’s only adult novel.
True or False?
she wrote Frankenstein?
21. The Modern Prometheus is the
subtitle of which novel?
22. Clara Peggotty appears in which
Dickens novel?
23. In The Handmaid’s Tale, what
are the housekeepers called?

10. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are
sisters in which 19th-century
American novel?
11. In which year was Nineteen
Eighty-Four published?
24. Who wrote Brave New World?
25. In which George Eliot novel do
Dorothea Brooke and Edward
Casaubon marry?

12. In The Catcher in the Rye, how does

the protagonist Holden deal with
difficult situations?

13. What is the name of Madame

Bovary’s husband?

14. Which novel is narrated by

six-year-old Scout Finch?

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A Good Impression
1. Impressionism began in the
18th century. True or False?
2. In which year was the term
“Impressionism” coined?
3. Which river was painted by
Monet and Renoir?
4. What did the Impressionists
initially set out to do?
5. “Unfinished” was used to
describe the Impressionist
style. True or False?
6. What effect did painting
ART & LITERATURE
on white canvases have on
Impressionist painting?
7. Monet was best known for his
paintings of which sort of ponds?
8. Who painted Luncheon at
the Boating Party, exhibited
in 1882?
9. What is the French term
“plein air” used to describe?
10. Which war did Monet escape
from when he relocated to
London in 1870?
11. Impressionism marked the birth of
modern painting. True or False?
12. “Anyone can have a talent at 25.
The difficulty is to have talent at
50”: which artist said that?
13. Which Impressionist artist died
at his home in Giverny, penniless
and unknown?
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14. View from Louveciennes is a painting
by which Impressionist artist?
15. American Impressionist Childe
Hassam was best known for
painting what objects?
16. Which “forgotten” Impressionist
born in France was a British citizen
and said, “I always start a painting
with the sky”?
17. Which Impressionist artist
married Eugéne Manet,
Édouard Manet’s brother?
18. What term was used to describe
the experimental nature of the
Impressionist painters in Paris?
19. What “dotty” painting by Georges
Seurat launched Neo-Impressionism
in the 1880s?
20. The leader of the Post-Impressionist
movement, Paul Gauguin, sought
inspiration from communities in
which South Pacific island?
21. Which movement reacted against
the Impressionists?
22. Which art critic created the
term “Impressionism”?
23. Who painted At the Moulin Rouge?
24. Photography had a big influence on
the Impressionists. True or False?
25. Overall, what was the most popular
subject in Impressionism?
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Mad about Austen
1. In Pride and Prejudice, who is
the youngest Bennet sister?
2. In Persuasion, how does Captain
Wentworth let Anne know of his
feelings for her?
3. The Brothers was the name of
the original manuscript for which
later Austen novel?
4. How many children were in
Jane Austen’s family?
5. What does Catherine think
Henry’s father has done with his
wife in Northanger Abbey?
6. In which year was Jane Austen born?
7. In Persuasion, Anne Elliot is
considered a spinster. How old
is she in the novel?
8. How many novels did Jane Austen
complete during her lifetime?
9. In Pride and Prejudice, how many
truly accomplished women does
Darcy claim to know?
10. It has been estimated that at any
one time (around the world), there
are more than 600 Jane Austen
adaptations being produced.
True or False?
11. Was Villette written by
Jane Austen?
12. Jane once accepted a marriage
proposal but changed her mind
and turned the man down the
following day. True or False?
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13. Which pseudonym did Jane
Austen go under when she was
first published?
14. At which Surrey beauty spot is a
picnic held in Emma?
15. Where does the Bennet family live?
16. Which modern-day book, inspired
by Pride and Prejudice, features
Mark Darcy?
17. In 1996, the actress Gwyneth
Paltrow played which Austen
heroine in a film adaptation?
18. In Mansfield Park, who does
ART & LITERATURE
Fanny Price marry?
19. Where is Jane Austen buried?
20. Lady Susan is the title of an
unpublished Austen novel.
True or False?
21. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth’s
best friend is whom?
22. Sense and Sensibility tells the
story of two sisters. What are
their names?
23. How many marriages take place
in Pride and Prejudice?
24. How many novels did Jane Austen
have published in her lifetime?
25. E. M. Forster was a huge fan of Jane
Austen. True or False?
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Take a Walk on the Dark Side

1. Who created the detective 13. What is the first name of Agatha
Alex Cross? Christie’s Miss Marple?

2. Betty Barnard is strangled with 14. Which crusading Swedish

her own belt in which Agatha
Christie book?
3. In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders
in the Rue Morgue, the murderer is
which animal?
4. What is the name of P. D. James’s
female private detective?
5. Who created Inspector Wexford?
journalist died in 2004, leaving
behind the manuscripts of
three now-famous thrillers?
15. Who created Philip Marlowe?
16. Which inspector is featured in
Charles Dickens’s Bleak House?
17. In which book does Sherlock
Holmes first appear?

6. The Woman in White is by 18. Which author’s character is Dr.

ART & LITERATURE

which author? Temperance “Bones” Brennan from

7. Which scheming and repellent
character appears in five of Patricia
Highsmith’s novels?
8. Raymond Chandler forgets to tell
us who murdered the chauffeur in
The Big Sleep. True or False?
9. Who is the archenemy of
Sherlock Holmes?
the TV series loosely based on?
19. Which career did Sara Paretsky’s
gritty V. I. Warshawski attempt
before becoming a P.I.?
20. Which Agatha Christie “whodunit”
opened in London’s West End in
1952 and is still going, making it
the world’s longest-running play?

10. Silver Bullet is a horror film

based on the Stephen King novella
Cycle of the Werewolf. What is the
Silver Bullet?

11. Which hilarious New Jersey

bounty hunter was created by
Janet Evanovich?

12. Crime author Patricia Highsmith

kept snails as pets and carried
them around in her handbag.
True or False?

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Harry Potter: Magical Creatures

1. The Grey Lady is the Ravenclaw 14. Aragog, an Acromantula, is

House ghost. What is her real name? the “Monster of Slytherin.”
True or False?
2. What was Albus
Dumbledore’s boggart? 15. What color is Unicorn blood?

3. Goblins converse in a language 16. What kind of creature does Professor

known as what?
4. A Thestral is seen only by… ?
5. Lord Voldemort’s pet snake Nagini
is a Horcrux. True or False?
6. Which house-elf served the
Crouch family?
7. Which magical creature lives in
Lockhart let loose in his classroom
in the second Harry Potter book?
17. What kind of owl is Harry’s
pet Hedwig?
18. Is Hedwig a female or male owl?
19. Which animal represents the school
house Hufflepuff?

ART & LITERATURE

the attic of the Burrow, causing 20. Who made Wolfsbane Potion for
minor disruptions when things Professor Lupin to help him keep
are too quiet? his human thoughts once he was
transformed into a werewolf?
8. Which musical instrument does
Harry use to get past Fluffy, the
three-headed dog that guards
the Philosopher’s Stone?

9. What is the name of

Dumbledore’s phoenix?

10. Who slays Nagini in the final book?

11. Dementors are invisible to Muggles

but affect them in the same way.
True or False?

12. Witherwings is the alias given

to which magical creature to
avoid suspicion from the Ministry
of Magic?

13. How many Horcruxes were

destroyed using Basilisk venom?

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Know Your Books?
1. Which publisher is responsible for
publishing J. K. Rowling’s Harry
Potter series?
2. Which author created the cannibalistic
serial killer Hannibal Lecter?
3. Who wrote The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall?
4. Which Lord of the Rings character
is first described as “the Grey”?
5. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker won
the Booker Prize. True or False?
6. Which of these Shakespeare
ART & LITERATURE
plays is NOT a comedy: Hamlet,
Twelfth Night, A Midsummer’s
Nights Dream?
7. Where did Adrian Mole grow up?
8. The book Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep? served as the primary
basis for the plot of which 1982 film?
9. In Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five,
Timmy the dog is actually a female.
True or False?
10. In 1961, who was Holly Golightly in
the film version of Truman Capote’s
Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
11. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was first
published anonymously in which year?
12. In Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle
Book, what animal is Shere Khan?
13. Nancy Mitford got the title of her
book Love in a Cold Climate from
George Orwell’s novel Keep the
Aspidistra Flying. True or False?
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14. Carte Blanche, a new James Bond
novel, was published in 2011.
Who wrote it?
15. According to The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy, what is the answer
to the “Ultimate Question of Life,
The Universe, and Everything”?
16. In John Wyndham’s The Day of the
Triffids, what are the Triffids?
17. Complete the title of this book by
John Buchan: The…Steps.
18. In which novel by Charles Dickens
does Miss Havisham appear?
19. The Quiet American was
written by…?
20. Which famous detective is featured
in Dashiell Hammett’s The
Maltese Falcon?
21. Which Malorie Blackman novel
about a state separated by color was
made into a successful TV series?
22. Which author created private
eye Cormoran Strike under a
different name?
23. Which name did the author use to
write the Cormoran Strike novels?
24. Who wrote the Chaos
Walking trilogy?
25. Some Assembly Required and
Rethinking Normal are
autobiographies about what?
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The Book That Became a Film
1. Which character does Kermit the Frog
play in the Muppet version of Robert
Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island?
2. Which infamous movie villain was
originally created by American
horror/thriller author Thomas Harris?
3. Complete the famous line from
The Lord of the Rings: “One Ring
to rule them all; One Ring to find
them; One Ring to bring them all…”
4. What brand and model of car can
be seen flying across London and
the British countryside in the
second Harry Potter film?
5. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
became a hit Steven Spielberg–
directed film in 1985. Which star
got her big break in the lead role?
6. In Rudyard Kipling’s and Disney’s
The Jungle Book, what is the name
of the python?
7. In the Oscar-winning screen
adaptation of the Winston Groom
novel, where does Forrest Gump
spend much of the film sitting?
8. After five nominations, Kate Winslet
won her first Oscar in 2008 for her
role in an adaptation of which book
by Bernhard Schlink?
9. Which Disney film adaptation of
a classic book features playing
cards, hares, cats, rabbits, dodos,
and doorknobs?
20. Which museum is featured in
10. Which classic novel, twice adapted
to film, is set on a desert island
populated only by children?
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11. Breakfast at Tiffany’s has
transitioned from novella to film
to Broadway musical to famous
song. Who wrote the original book?
12. What career has the actor who played
Charlie in the original adaptation
of Roald Dahl’sCharlie and the
Chocolate Factory gone on to?
13. Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist has
proved popular with filmmakers:
how many big screen adaptations
have there been?
14. In the classic film The Godfather
adapted from Mario Puzo’s book,
ART & LITERATURE
which Mafia boss is famously “gonna
make him an offer he can’t refuse”?
15. Which American literary courtroom
classic, covering issues of racial
inequality, became an Oscar-winning
film in 1962?
16. What is the name of the book
that became the influential
Steven Spielberg film about the
Holocaust, Schindler’s List?
17. C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of
Narnia have now been made into
three blockbuster movies, but how
many books are there in the series?
18. Which was the first Bond book to
be made into a film?
19. Who is the author of the James
Bond books?
the film of Dan Brown’s The
Da Vinci Code?
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Art for Art’s Sake

1. In which decade did Francis 16. Which animal did the painter
Bacon die? Stubbs enjoy depicting?

2. Who founded the Cubist 17. Which name is Greek artist

movement with Picasso? Doménikos Theotokópoulos
better known by?
3. Which painting was stolen from
the National Gallery in Oslo in 18. Who was the first president of the
1994 and held for ransom? Royal Academy?

4. Which sculptress is associated 19. In which year did Tate Modern open?
with Cornwall?
20. The cave paintings in Lascaux,
5. What does the term France, were made about 15,000
“impasto” mean? years ago. True or False?

6. William Blake was first trained 21. Which Italian sculptor and architect
ART & LITERATURE

and worked in which craft? is said to have created the Baroque

7. Who created The Angel of
the North?
8. What type of art is Banksy
known for?
9. Who painted Ophelia, depicting
the suicide of the same character
in Hamlet?
style of sculpture?
22. Leonard Da Vinci’s mural The Last
Supper can be seen in which city?
23. Acrylic is made from pigment and
plastic. True or False?
24. Which animal is often used in art
to symbolize peace?

10. Which American artist painted 25. Which supermodel was painted
Christina’s World in 1948? naked by Lucian Freud in 2002?

11. Where was Frida Kahlo born?

12. Which artist famously painted

his mother?

13. Which artist is known for his

giant balloon animals?

14. Rene Magritte was part of which

art movement?

15. Canaletto is famous for painting

which city?

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Marvel Comics

1. In which year was Marvel Comics
#1 first published by Timely?
2. Stan Lee wrote his first story in
1941 for which Timely (soon to
be Marvel) comic?
14. Who are Arsenic, Sister
Grimm, Lucy in the Sky,
Talkback, and Bruiser?
15. Who wrote the miniseries
Civil War?

3. The Fantastic Four #1 was first
published in 1961. True or False?
4. Which issue of The Amazing
Spider-Man first features
Dr. Octopus?
5. Wolverine appears in the first
issue of X-Men in 1963. True
or False?
16. Who is the odd one out: the
Red Hulk, the Green Hulk, or
the Blue Hulk?
17. One of the X-Men, Jean Grey,
is also known as: Phoenix,
Volcana, Valkyrie?
18. What color are the distinctive
streaks in Rogue’s hair?

ART & LITERATURE

6. What is Daredevil’s real name? 19. Peter Parker is raised by his
Aunt May and Uncle Ben because
7. In which year did Susan Storm his parents died when he was a
and Reed Richards get married? child. How did they die?

8. Is Captain Planet a Marvel 20. Who is Thor?

Comics hero?

9. 1978 saw the first graphic novel

from Marvel. Written by Stan Lee
and Jack Kirby, it was called The
Silver Surfer. True or False?

10. In which year did The Savage

She-Hulk first appear in print?

11. In 1986, the original X-Men

returned in a new comic book
titled X-Factor. True or False?

12. When does Gambit, known for

his ability to supercharge objects
with kinetic energy, first appear
in The Uncanny X-Men?

13. Spider-Man’s clone, Ben Reilly,

goes by which superhero name?

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Great Paintings

1. Who was the 1942 painting 13. What creatures feature in

Nighthawks painted by?
2. Which object can you see on
Van Gogh’s Chair?
3. Which objects can you see
on Gauguin’s Chair?
4. In Ruben’s The Judgement of
Paris, whose face can you see
on Minerva’s shield?
Pablo Picasso’s antiwar
painting Guernica?
14. How many elephants can be seen
in Akbar’s Adventures with the
Elephant Hawa’i in 1561?
15. In Christian art, a cross should
always point upward when on top of
a globe. What is wrong with the
globe in Netherlandish Proverbs?

5. When did Michaelangelo paint the
Sistine Chapel ceiling?
6. One of the “four Great Masters”
ART & LITERATURE
16. Which large distorted object is
at the bottom of Hans Holbein’s
portrait The Ambassadors?
17. Edouard Manet painted a white

of Chinese painting of the Ming

dynasty, Qiu Ying, was known cat at the foot of Olympia’s bed.
for: animals, flowers, landscapes True or False?
and palace life?
18. Complete the title of Goya’s
7. Who painted Mr. and Mrs. Andrews famous revolutionary painting:
in about 1750? The Third of May…

8. The Death of Marat depicts 19. The Metamorphosis of Narcissus

a murder victim where?
9. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
is a Romantic painting by
which German?
10. Seurat made at least 70
drawings and oil sketches
of the scene at La Grande
Jatte. True or False?
was inspired by a poem by which
classical poet?
20. The Lamentation of Christ
on the wall of the Scrovegni
Chapel was painted by which
Renaissance artist?

11. What color is the balloon in

Paul Klee’s 1922 oil painting?

12. The Qingming Scroll is the

only surviving work by Zhang
Zeduan, one of the greatest
painters of the Northern Song
period. True or False?

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The Brontës
1. Where did the Brontë sisters grow
up in England?
2. Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre
under which pseudonym?
3. What was the name of the Brontës’
only brother?
4. How many novels did Anne Brontë
write and publish?
5. Jane Austen wrote a posthumous
biography of Charlotte Brontë.
True or False?
6. In which Brontë novel does
the female protagonist slam the
bedroom door against her
husband, causing controversy
in 19th-century England?
7. How many Brontë siblings were
there in total?
8. In which year was Wuthering
Heights published under the
author’s real name?
9. Which Brontë sister wrote
Wuthering Heights?
10. William Crimsworth is a character
in which Brontë novel?
11. Which novelist and contemporary
wrote The Life of Charlotte Brontë?
12. Emily Brontë married at the age
of 20. True or False?
13. Wuthering Heights was originally
published as part of a three-volume
set. The third volume was another
Brontë novel—which one?
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14. Who are the narrators of
Wuthering Heights?
15. What is the name of Mr. Rochester’s
first wife in Jane Eyre?
16. As children, the Brontës would
often write articles and poems
about an imaginary kingdom
called what?
17. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne all
died of tuberculosis. True or False?
18. Which Brontë novel is set during
the industrial depression?
19. What is the name of Mr. Rochester’s
ART & LITERATURE
estate in which Jane Eyre takes up
employment as a governess?
20. As well as novels, the Brontë sisters
also published a volume of poems
together in 1846. True or False?
21. Which popular magazine of the
day did the Brontës read?
22. Which city was the model
for the fictional Villette in
Charlotte’s novel?
23. What is Agnes Grey’s job?
24. In Jane Eyre, where is St. John
Rivers going as a missionary?
25. “Reader, I married him.” Who
got married?
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Twilight: Eclipse

1. How does Jacob let Bella know
that he can’t be friends with her
any more?
2. Bella gets her acceptance
letter for the University of
Alaska. Where does Edward
want her to go?
3. In which city are there a series of
murders that the Cullens suspect
are vampire-related?
4. Who tells Bella that the evil vampire
Victoria has returned?
5. What was the name of Sam’s
ART & LITERATURE
14. How many werewolves turn up?
15. Jasper wants Bella to be present
at the battle, as her smell will
drive the newborn vampires
wild. True or False?
16. Who does Jacob assign to protect
Bella during the battle?
17. Edward gives Bella a crystal that
once belonged to his mother. What
shape is it?
18. How does Jacob find out that Bella
and Edward are getting married?
19. What’s the name of the

girlfriend before he imprinted

on Emily?
6. Jacob’s werewolf friend Quil
imprints. How old is the lucky lady?
7. Jacob invites Bella to La Push for
a bonfire. Who tells the story of
how werewolves came to be?
young newborn who
surrendered to Carlisle?
20. Bella and Edward plan to get
married a month before her
birthday. True or False?

8. What was the name of the vampire

who turned Jasper?

9. Why does Bella punch Jacob

and crack her hand?

10. Why is someone stealing

Bella’s clothes?

11. Who decides that the vampires

and werewolves should work
together to protect Bella
and Forks?

12. Who trains newborn vampires?

13. Where are newborn

vampires trained?

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A Christmas Carol
1. What is Scrooge’s first name?
2. Who was Scrooge’s dead
business partner?
3. It took Charles Dickens six weeks
to write A Christmas Carol. True
or False?
4. Which day does the book
begin on?
5. Who is the first ghost to
visit Scrooge?
6. And what does he bring him?
7. How long has Marley been dead
before he pays a visit to Scrooge?
8. Where does Scrooge first see
Marley’s face?
9. Which time does the clock strike
when the Ghost of Christmas Past
appears to Scrooge?
10. What is the first vision that the
Ghost of Christmas Past presents
to Scrooge?
11. When the Ghost of Christmas
Present meets Scrooge he is
holding a what?
12. What is Scrooge desperate
to know from the Ghost of
Christmas Present?
13. Two children come out from
under the garments of the Ghost
of Christmas Present. He says
they are whom?
14. Who is the final ghost?
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15. The Ghost of Christmas Yet
to Come shows Scrooge what
kind of shop?
16. What is the final scary image
that convinces Scrooge to
change his ways?
17. What does Scrooge send to the
Cratchit family on Christmas Day?
18. Where does Scrooge spend
Christmas Day?
19. Scrooge gives Bob Cratchit a bag
of coal when he arrives at work
after Christmas. True or False?
ART & LITERATURE
20. In The Muppet Christmas Carol,
what part does Miss Piggy play?
21. Who was Scrooge’s early love?
22. Who says, “God bless
us, everyone”?
23. How is the Ghost of Christmas Yet
to Come represented?
24. What is the lifespan of the Ghost
of Christmas Present?
25. When was A Christmas Carol
first published?
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Charles Dickens

1. Charles Dickens’s parents’ 16. Which pet animals did he

names were what? name Grip?

2. Which year was A Tale of Two
Cities written in?
3. Where was Charles Dickens born?
4. Where is Charles Dickens buried?
17. A Tale of Two Cities deals with
mobs, riots, and revolution. Which
other novel also deals with these?
18. Charles Dickens suffered from
which condition?

5. Which character was based on 19. What is the name of the eccentric
Charles Dickens’s father? spinster in Great Expectations?

6. Dickens was a natural showman. 20. Dickens was paid by the word.
True or False? True or False?

7. Charles Dickens once said: “I only

ART & LITERATURE

ask to be free. The butterflies are

free.” True or False?

8. How many times has Great

Expectations been adapted for
stage and screen?

9. Which pen name did Dickens

use in his earliest works?

10. How many children did Charles

Dickens have?

11. What was Charles Dickens’s

first published story?

12. What was the name of Charles

Dickens’s mistress?

13. Which is the last novel Charles

Dickens completed?

14. How many times did Charles

Dickens visit America?

15. The illustrator of Charles Dickens’s

books was known as “Phiz.” What
was his real name?

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Great Literary Journeys

1. Which Jack Kerouac novel 13. Who wrote In Cold Blood, a journey
features the travel exploits of into the Midwest and the minds of
Sal and Dean? two murderers?

2. Life of Pi features an ocean-borne 14. The Odyssey is an ancient tale by

boy, a raft, and a tiger. Who wrote it? Virgil. True or False?

3. Who wrote A Little Tour in France
in 1884?
4. Which Cormac McCarthy thriller
features the postapocalyptic journey
of a boy and his father?
5. Which classic American novel
details the downriver journey of
a boy and a runaway slave?
15. Which Virgil poem covers
one man’s wanderings from
Troy to Italy?
16. Which American novelist wrote
a travelogue about his travels
in Hawaii?
17. The Lord of the Rings follows
Bilbo and Sam’s journey into

ART & LITERATURE

6. Who wrote the popular
1975 travel work The Great
Railway Bazaar?
7. What is the name of the whaling
ship in Moby-Dick?
8. In which James Hilton novel
does an interrupted journey end
in Shangri-La?
9. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s
classic children’s book spans
space and the Sahara. What’s
its title?
Mordor. True or False?
18. Who wrote the tale of three boys
riding into Mexico and manhood
in All the Pretty Horses?
19. Which Robert M. Pirsig novel takes
the reader on a trip across America
with his young son, Chris?
20. Which Joseph Conrad novel
takes the reader downriver into
deep Africa?

10. From the violent and unnatural

musings of Hunter S. Thompson
came which 1971 road classic?

11. The Call of the Wild details one

dog’s journey through the Yukon.
Who wrote it?

12. Which Stephen King novel details

one man’s descent into insanity
at the Overlook Hotel?

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Postmodern Literature

1. Which novel written by 12. Which Kurt Vonnegut novel

Flann O’Brien in 1939 is often
considered a pioneer of the
postmodern genre?
2. Which Philip K. Dick novel
is venerated as a postmodern
classic because of its shifting
view of reality?
3. Which William S. Burroughs novel
did the author advise could be read
in any chapter order?
explores the typical postmodern
attribute of paranoia?
13. Paul Auster’s 1985 collection of
short stories is what?
14. Which group of 1980s postmodern
writers included Bret Easton Ellis,
Tama Janowitz, and Jay McInerney?
15. Who wrote Generation X: Tales for
an Accelerated Culture in 1991?

4. Which Irish writer was seen as
pivotal in making the shift from
modernism to postmodernism
ART & LITERATURE
16. Which W. G. Sebald novel is written
entirely without paragraphs?
17. Which violent thriller by Bret

in literature?
5. During which decades is
postmodernist literature often
thought to have peaked?
6. Which classic postmodern
novel immerses itself in
warfare paradoxes?
7. Which David Foster Wallace
novel is riddled with endnotes
and footnotes?
8. Which 1985 Don DeLillo novel is
considered his “breakout” work?
Easton Ellis follows the life of
a yuppie New Yorker?
18. Along with William S. Burroughs,
who employed the “cut-up”
technique of writing?
19. After which major conflict
did the genre of postmodern
literature begin?
20. Which Gabriel García Márquez
novel was awarded the 1982 Nobel
Prize for Literature?

9. Irony and black humor are

considered two classic elements
of postmodern novels. True
or False?

10. Which Margaret Atwood novel

describes a world controlled by
Christian zealots?

11. Postmodernism is skeptical about

which type of narratives?

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Poets Laureate
1. Who was the first official Poet
Laureate of England?
2. In which year did he become
Poet Laureate?
3. The position of US Poet
Laureate is officially titled:
Poet Laureate Consultant in
Poetry to the Library of Congress.
True or False?
4. Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral
was Poet Laureate in which country?
5. Who declined to be the English
Poet Laureate in 1850 because
he was too old?
6. Who did the post of Poet Laureate
go to in 1850?
7. How much is the US Poet Laureate
paid annually?
8. Who turned down the position of
English Poet Laureate in 1984?
9. Who was the first person to hold
the position of New Zealand
Poet Laureate?
10. What is the Irish equivalent of
a Poet Laureate?
11. The Canadian Poet Laureate
holds the title: Canadian
Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
True or False?
12. For how many years do Poets
Laureate hold office in Canada?
13. Saint Lucia does not have a Poet
Laureate. True or False?
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QUIZ 123
14. Nigeria does not have a Poet
Laureate. True or False?
15. Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin was a
Poet Laureate of where?
16. Who was the Poet Laureate of
Nazi Germany?
17. The title of the Dutch Poet Laureate
is: Dichter des Vaderlands. What
does this mean?
18. William Wordsworth was a Poet
Laureate. True or False?
19. The salary of the British Poet
ART & LITERATURE
Laureate has always included
which type of alcohol?
20. Who followed Carol Ann Duffy
as Poet Laureate of Britain?
21. For how long does a Poet Laureate
hold the title in England?
22. Which poet was paid a pension by
James I as the unofficial Laureate?
23. Which Poet Laureate also wrote
crime-fiction novels under the
name Nicholas Blake?
24. Who was the British Poet Laureate
between 1930 and 1967?
25. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was
made the Poet Laureate by Queen
Victoria. Which famous poem
did he write about the Battle
of Balaclava?
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Canterbury Tales

1. When did Geoffrey Chaucer write 16. Who does Satan become friends
The Canterbury Tales? with before casting him into Hell?

2. Why are the pilgrims going 17. Which young hero impresses the
to Canterbury? ladies with his singing and poetry?

3. Chaucer often uses sonnets in the
telling of The Canterbury Tales.
True or False?
4. How many pilgrims are going
to Canterbury?
5. How many tales did Chaucer
originally intend that each
pilgrim would tell?
18. The Reeve is a calm, fat man.
True or False?
19. Who is the daughter of the
Roman Emperor?
20. How many “tales” did
Chaucer write?
21. What does the Squire wear?

6. The Pardoner’s Tale tells of three 22. “The Miller’s Tale” is a fabliau.
ART & LITERATURE

men seeking what? True or False?

7. Who are the most honest and
righteous pilgrims?
8. Whose motto is: “Love
Conquers All”?
9. Which inn is the Host the
proprietor of?
10. The Knight’s Yeoman tells the
longest tale. True or False?
23. Which character is given a
mechanical horse that can transport
him anywhere across the globe?
24. The Merchant has a thick bushy
beard. True or False?
25. Which tale features someone being
branded with a red-hot poker?

11. Which pilgrim is a con artist trying

to pawn off his “holy relics”?

12. Who has a love of garlic, onions,

leeks, and wine?

13. Who claims to have “four

dead husbands”?

14. Who is responsible for teaching

the Crow how to speak?

15. Which tales take place in the Orient?

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Famous Photographers

1. Who was Ernő Friedmann better 16. Which female photographer

known as?
2. Which photo agency did
he co-found?
3. Charles Negre is famous for his
photos of which city?
4. Don McCullin memorably covered
war in which country in 1964–1965?
5. What did William Henry Fox
Talbot describe his early
photography as?
6. Which photographer was an
helped shape the look of Rolling
Stone magazine?
17. Photographer Lord Snowdon was
married to which princess?
18. What was the name of film star
Errol Flynn’s photographer son?
19. What is the name given
to photographers who
pursue celebrities?
20. Helmut Newton was born in which
German city?
21. Which photographer coined the

ART & LITERATURE

inspiration for Dennis Hopper’s
character in Apocalypse Now? term “the decisive moment”?

7. Lee Miller was a man. True or False?
8. Which photographer took a famous
portrait of the Kray twins?
9. Which photographer fled
Armenia for Canada and worked
in Ottawa?
10. What is Rankin’s first name?
11. In which year did Eve Arnold die?
22. What was the subject of the book
published by photographer Robert
Frank in 1958?
23. The “rayograph” was invented
by whom?
24. What sort of photography does
Annie Leibovitz specialize in?
25. Diane Arbus is known for her
landscapes. True or False?

12. The Daguerreotype process was

invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé
Daguerre. True or False?

13. Which former Chancellor

of the Exchequer was an
accomplished photographer?

14. Bert Hardy made his name with

which magazine?

15. When was Life magazine founded?

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Everything Shakespeare

1. Who has his or her eyes gouged 14. How many of Shakespeare’s plays
out in King Lear? have “Henry” in the title?

2. Tybalt is a member of the House
of Capulet. True or False?
3. “Though this be madness, yet
there is method in’t” is a quote
from which play?
15. How does Othello kill Desdemona?
16. Shakespeare was an actor as well as
a writer. True or False?
17. In which play does Shylock appear?

4. Much Ado about Nothing is set 18. How many witches are featured
on which island? in Macbeth?

5. Ralph Fiennes starred in a film
adaptation of which tragedy?
6. Which “second-best” item did
ART & LITERATURE
19. All of which planet’s satellites share
the same names as characters from
Shakespeare’s plays?
20. Hamlet is the prince of which

Shakespeare bequeath to
his wife? Scandinavian country?

7. Shakespeare’s Globe Theater burned

down during a performance of
which play?

8. Who tells Romeo that Juliet

has died?

9. “Is this a dagger which I see before

me, The handle toward my hand?”
is a quote from Romeo and Juliet.
True or False?

10. Which monarch, other than

Elizabeth I, reigned during
Shakespeare’s lifetime?

11. Who drinks the “poison’d cup”

in Hamlet?

12. 10 Things I Hate about You is based

on which of Shakespeare’s plays?

13. What is the name of

Sebastian’s twin sister in
Twelfth Night?

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Pop Art

1. What was the name of Andy 15. Where did David Hockney paint
Warhol’s studio? A Bigger Splash?

2. Pop Art first emerged in London 16. Whose autobiography is

or New York? titled Autorotella?

3. In which decade did Pop Art develop?
4. Who designed the cover for
the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s
Lonely Hearts Club Band?
17. Which cult rock band did Warhol
work with from the mid-1960s?
18. Which medium did Lichtenstein
often parody?

5. What was the name of the 1955 19. In which year did Lichtenstein
pioneering British Pop Art exhibition? create Whaam!?

6. Which brand of soup can did Warhol 20. What did Valerie Solanas do
depict in 32 Soup Cans? to Warhol in June 1968?

ART & LITERATURE

7. What was the name of the founding
British Pop Art movement?

8. Eduardo Paolozzi designed

mosaics for which London
Underground station?

9. Who created the collage Just What

Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So
Different, So Appealing?

10. Warhol’s first film was Kitchen, in

1963. True or False?

11. In which gallery is Roy Lichtenstein’s

Drowning Girl on display?

12. The Museum of Modern Art

(MoMA) is in which US city?

13. Robert Rauschenberg based a series

of works called Stoned Moon Series
on which Apollo space mission?

14. Marilyn Monroe’s face is featured

in a famous series of images by
which artist?

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Classic Novels
1. Which children’s author founded
a cricket team?
2. Which Jane Austen heroine is first
described as “handsome, clever,
and rich”?
3. How long does Robinson Crusoe
spend on his island?
4. Which Dickensian hero is
permanently of the opinion that
“something will turn up”?
5. In Vanity Fair, which word does
Thackeray use to demonstrate a
social snub?
ART & LITERATURE
6. The Turn of the Screw’s narrator
is employed as what?
7. Toward the end of Tess of the
d’Urbervilles, where is Tess arrested?
8. Which philosopher wrote Candide?
9. Wilkie Collins’s novel Armadale has
been called the earliest detective
book in English. True or False?
10. After Jane Austen’s death,
Persuasion and which other book
were published as a set?
11. In Middlemarch, where in Europe
does Will Ladislaw re-encounter
Dorothea Casaubon?
12. Which drugs does Sherlock
Holmes use?
13. “Quadruped… Forty teeth, namely
twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth,
and twelve incisive” defines which
animal in Hard Times?
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14. In Cold Comfort Farm, Mr. Mybug
is convinced that Branwell Bronte
did what?
15. During Tristram Shandy’s
conception, his mother interrupts
her husband to ask if he’s
remembered to wind the clock.
True or False?
16. Pamela, the first novel in English,
was initially intended to be what?
17. Which Joseph Conrad novel is
considered to be a response to
Crime and Punishment?
18. In Far from the Madding Crowd,
Bathsheba Everdene’s interest in
Francis Troy is started by what?
19. In The Gold Bug, Edgar Allan Poe
uses which branch of cryptography
to solve the story’s central mystery?
20. Who travels with Don Quixote on
his adventures?
21. Who wrote Of Mice and Men?
22. In which novel by Franz Kafka does
a man change into a giant insect?
23. Swann’s Way is part of which series?
24. What is the title of Samuel Butler’s
1872 novel that satirizes Victorian
ideals of Utopian progress?
25. Set in Harlem and Greenwich
Village during the 1950s, Another
Country is by which author?
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DC Comics

1. In which year was National Allied 14. Watchmen #1 was published in

Publications, now known as DC 1986. Written by Alan Moore,
Comics, founded? who was the artist?

2. What does the “DC” in DC Comics
stand for?
3. Who was the first hero to appear
in a comic book?
4. What was the name of the comic
that Superman first appeared in?
5. In which comic did Batman make
his debut in 1939?
6. In which comic did Mister
15. In which year was John
Constantine: Hellblazer
first published?
16. Who is the artist responsible for
V for Vendetta?
17. Who wrote the second series of The
Sandman, which published in 1989?
18. What is the title of the
first Batman comic that DC
produced using entirely

ART & LITERATURE

Mxyzptlk make his debut in 1944? computer-generated illustrations?

7. Western Comics #1 included 19. In which year was the imprint

characters such as the Wyoming Vertigo born?
Kid, Cowboy Marshall, and
Rodeo Rick. It was published 20. Who said: “You get the best seat in
in 1948. True or False? the house for Armageddon”?

8. In which year did Superman and

Batman join forces for the first
time in comics?

9. Aquaman made his first appearance

in More Fun Comics #73 in January
1962. True or False?

10. In 2010, the epic Blackest Night

came to its conclusion. What is
the name of the following series?

11. What is the first name of Bruce

Wayne’s butler?

12. What is the name of Bruce

Wayne’s son?

13. What were the names of

Bruce Wayne’s parents?

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Banned Books

1. Why was Doctor Zhivago by Boris
Pasternak banned in the former
Soviet Union?
2. Which Steinbeck novel was banned
in California for portraying its “area
residents in an unflattering light”?
3. Why was Tarzan by Edgar Rice
Burroughs banned?
4. Which book was banned in apartheid
South Africa in 1955 for containing
“obscene” material?
5. Which anti-slavery novel was
banned in the American South
ART & LITERATURE
14. Why was it banned in China?
15. Which book by MI5 officer Peter
Wright was banned in the UK even
before it was published?
16. The Metamorphosis by Franz
Kafka was banned in Nazi
Germany. True or False?
17. Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Iran,
Kenya, Kuwait, Liberia, Pakistan,
Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania,
and Turkey all banned The Satanic
Verses. True or False?
18. Stalin banned George Orwell’s

and Russia? Nineteen Eighty-Four because

6. Why was the same novel banned
in Russia?
7. Which author was prosecuted
for “offenses against public
morals” in 1857?
8. For which book?
it satirized his leadership.
True or False?
19. Why was the novel The Well of
Loneliness banned?
20. Black Beauty was banned in
South Africa because of the
words in the title. True or False?

9. Which Dr. Seuss children’s book

was banned in China in 1965
but was allowed to be sold in 1991
after the author’s death?

10. Why was it banned in China?

11. In which year was Machiavelli’s

The Prince banned for being
anti-Christian?

12. Why was the children’s book And

Tango Makes Three banned in much
of America?

13. Which book featuring the Queen of

Hearts was banned in China in 1931?

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Sherlock Holmes

1. Who is Sherlock Holmes’s brother?
2. What is found on the body in
A Study in Scarlet?
3. In the Adventure of the Copper
Beeches, Violet Hunter is wondering
whether to accept a job as a what?
4. Holmes says, “Elementary, my dear
Watson” 25 times throughout the
full works of Arthur Conan Doyle.
True or False?
14. Which weapon does Holmes not
use while solving cases?
15. Who are the Baker Street
Irregulars who often aid
Holmes in solving his cases?
16. What is significant about
The Final Problem?
17. Where does Holmes grapple
with Moriarty and fall to his
supposed death?

5. Sir Hugo, Sir Charles, and Miss 18. The Valley of Fear features an
Beryl Stapleton are all characters informant named… ?
from which case?
19. In which story does Holmes return,

ART & LITERATURE

6. Many of Doyle’s works were after being presumed dead?
originally serialized in
which magazine? 20. What is the name of the final
collection of short stories?
7. Which short story involves a
Miss Sutherland, who is abandoned
at the altar on her wedding day
by her fiance?

8. Dr. Watson’s future wife, Mary

Morston, is introduced in
which novel?

9. How many Sherlock Holmes short

stories are there?

10. Who is the woman whom Holmes

is said to refer to as “The Woman”?

11. How many pipes will Holmes need

while solving his trickiest problems?

12. What hobby does Holmes take up

when he retires?

13. A Study in Scarlet was originally

titled A Tangled Skein. True or False?

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Who Created This?

1. The Grand Odalisque 23. Flaming June

2. Luncheon of the 24. The Garden of Earthly Delights

Boating Party
25. The Thinker (sculpture)
3. Broken Column

4. Primavera

5. Olympia

6. No. 5 1948

7. The Son of Man

8. Royal Red and Blue

9. In the Loge
ART & LITERATURE

10. Massacre of the Innocents

11. American Gothic

12. The Persistence of Memory

13. Jimson Weed/White Flower

No. 1

14. The Third of May 1808

15. Las Meninas

16. Cataract 3

17. Bubbles

18. The Scapegoat

19. My Bed

20. Girl with Balloon

21. The Night Watch

22. The Arnolfini Portrait

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Modern American Literature

1. Which American author’s first novel
was Moon Palace?
2. Author Thomas Pynchon is often
credited as being at the forefront of
modern American writing. What
was his celebrated third novel?
3. Which 1970 Toni Morrison
novel examines identity in
a racist society?
4. The title of the John Irving
novel is The World According
to what?
5. Published in 1971, Don DeLillo’s
13. The movie Brokeback Mountain
was originally based on a short
story by which author?
14. This author’s 1998 The Hours won
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
15. Out of this author’s many novels,
his most famous feature “Rabbit”
in the title.
16. Which E. B. White novel is
about a spider and a pig?
17. Which American author wrote
The Lovely Bones?
18. What is the name of Charles

ART & LITERATURE

first novel was what?
Frazier’s novel about an epic walk
6. The American novel that back from the American Civil War?
features 388 endnotes is David
Foster Wallace’s what? 19. Donna Tartt’s best-selling 1992
novel is what?
7. American novelist Michael
Chabon’s novel about the 20. Which Pulitzer Prize–winning
comic industry is called what? author commonly writes about
American Indians?
8. Who wrote satirical family drama
The Corrections?

9. The Tree of Smoke by American

author Denis Johnson focuses on
the Gulf War. True or False?

10. Fight Club is best known for the

movie adaptation starring Brad
Pitt, but who wrote the novel?

11. Author Cynthia Ozick often

writes about life within
Jewish-American families.
True or False?

12. Which multi-award-winning

author’s last novel was Nemesis?

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The Lord of the Rings

1. Whom did Gollum kill to get
his “precious”?
2. Which dwarf joins the Fellowship
of the Ring?
3. The… Pony is the inn where the
hobbits stay in Bree under Bree-hill.
4. The rings were made by the
Elven-smiths of where?
5. Frodo changes his name to Master
Took after he leaves the shire.
True or False?
6. Which creature rescues Gandalf
ART & LITERATURE
14. Frodo sees many things when he
gazes into the Mirror of Galadriel,
but what does he see first?
15. The Rohirrim are well known for
their horses. What is the name of
King Théoden’s horse?
16. What is Durin’s Bane?
17. What does Pippin cast aside when
he’s been captured by the Orcs so
the others can follow their path?
18. Whom does King Théoden hold
prisoner for rebelling against
his commands?

when he is stranded on the pinnacle

of Orthanc? 19. What are you not meant to do in
the Dead Marshes?
7. Who cuts the ring from
Sauron’s hand? 20. Cirith… is the perilous high
pass that Frodo, Sam, and Gollum
8. Mount Doom has another decide to take before Gollum leads
name—what is it? them into a dangerous trap.

9. Who is sent by Saruman to

summon Gandalf to him?

10. When the Sword of Elendil is

reforged, what does Aragorn
name it?

11. Arwen commands the flood

that sweeps away the Nazgûl.
True or False?

12. Which word does Gandalf have

to speak in the Elvish language
Quenya to open the Doors of Durin
outside the Mines of Moria?

13. Whose tomb does the Company

of the Ring find in the Mines
of Moria?

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Literary Sequels

1. How many sequels are there to C. S. 14. Beggarman, Thief is a 1977

Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew?
2. Which title follows Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland?
3. Kingsley Amis continues the
lives of Patrick and Jenny Standish
in his Take a Girl Like You sequel
titled what?
Irwin Shaw sequel to Banker,
Philanthropist. True or False?
15. Which is the fourth sequel in the
Chronicles of Prydain series?
16. Which Hergé title follows
Haddock and Tintin’s exploits
in Destination Moon?

4. Which sequel is the next in
line after Alexandre Dumas’s
The Three Musketeers?
5. Which J. R. R. Tolkien title follows
The Two Towers?
17. Which title picks up where Tom is
left in Tom Brown’s Schooldays?
18. What is the second title in the
Noughts and Crosses series by
Malorie Blackman?

ART & LITERATURE

6. Which officially recognized sequel
to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
was written by Sally Beauman?
7. Which book follows Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer’s Stone?
19. John Braine’s sequel to Room at
the Top is what?
20. Tom Sharpe’s Grantchester Grind
is the sequel to what?

8. What is the second and final sequel

in Philip Pullman’s His Dark
Materials trilogy?

9. Women in Love picks up where D. H.

Lawrence leaves off in which novel?

10. Portrait in Sepia is a sequel to Isabel

Allende’s Daughter of Fortune. True
or False?

11. What is the sequel to John

Scalzi’s science-fiction novel
Old Man’s War?

12. What precedes the 2007 thriller

sequel The 47th Samurai?

13. William Goldman’s thriller novel

Brothers is a sequel to what?

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 CHAPTER 4

GEOGRAPHY

Explore rivers, mountains, volcanoes,

and deserts. From national dishes to
festive holidays, from the biggest and
the longest to the most famous,
these quizzes will send you
on a journey of discovery.
GEOGRAPHY

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What on Earth?

1. How old is Earth? 14. Fossilized tree sap is called what?

2. Which mountain range divides 15. Earth’s continents are constantly

Europe and Asia? shifting. True or False?

3. What large-scale ecosystem is 16. Is Earth at its widest at the equator

at the equator? or pole to pole?

4. Lyell formulated the idea that
geological processes happen at the
same rate today as they did in the
past. What is this idea called?
5. What is the igneous rock formed
from volcanic lava that often forms
pencil-like columns?
6. The outer mantle is one of Earth’s
layers. True or False?
20. Our solar system does NOT
7. The inner core of Earth is made
of lead and iron. True or False?
17. Our sun is a planet. True
or False?
18. The Pyrenees mountain range
forms the border between which
two countries?
19. What term is used by geographers
to describe a pointed mountain
peak formed by glacial erosion?
contain which of the following:
planets, stars, galaxies, comets?

8. Which of the following is NOT

a type of rock: igneomorphic,
igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic?

9. Which phenomenon provides an

accurate method for calculating
Earth’s age?
GEOGRAPHY

10. Which rocks were formed

underwater by layers of minerals
and organic remains?

11. Igneous rocks are formed by what?

12. What does high tension and

pressure change igneous and
sedimentary rocks into?

13. What do we call the stone

remains of once-living things
found in rocks?

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Rivers

1. Which is the longest river in the 15. What is the area around a
United States? meandering channel called?

2. The bottom of a waterfall is 16. A floodplain landscape is subject

called what? to constant what?

3. The start of a river is called its what?
4. What are small rivers flowing into
a larger main river called?
5. What is the world’s greatest river in
terms of both volume of water and
the size of its basin?
6. On which river does Paris lie?
20. Which is the world’s
7. Rivers shape the landscape
by erosion and deposition.
True or False?
17. What is the solid material carried
by the river called?
18. What percentage of the world’s
electricity is provided by dams
built on rivers?
19. The erosive power of a river
is greatest during a what?
highest waterfall?
21. Which is the world’s widest river?

8. What forms when a loop of 22. Where is the Irrawaddy River?

river becomes cut off from
the main flow?
9. What is the Thames Barrier on the
Thames River for?
10. A river and its tributaries collect all
the surface water within a drainage
GEOGRAPHY
23. In which African country would
you meet people who live along
the Omo River?
24. What is the name of Australia’s
longest river?
25. The Desaguadero River flows from

basin. True or False?

which high Bolivian lake?
11. Which is the world’s longest river?

12. The weight of a glacier can make a

river underneath the ice flow uphill.
True or False?

13. Which of these rivers is NOT

in South America: Orinoco,
Amazon, Ebro?

14. Which famous river runs more

than 400 miles (650 km) eastward
across northern Italy?

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Don’t Blow Your Top

1. Where in the world is the
volcano Krakatoa?
2. Volcanoes can be active,
dormant, or… ?
3. Cinder is a type of lava. True
or False?
4. All volcanoes have runny lava.
True or False?
5. Volcanoes can form under the sea.
True or False?
6. Rocks that form from either magma
or lava are known as what?
7. Herculaneum and which other
city were destroyed by Vesuvius
in the year 79 ce?
15. A hole in the ground emitting steam
or smoke in a volcanically active
area is called a what?
16. A blob of lava thrown out of a
volcano that solidifies in mid-air
and lands as a rock is called a what?
17. On which planet is the tallest
volcano in the solar system?
18. The depression in the peak of
a volcano is called what?
19. Granite comes from volcanoes.
True or False?
20. Volcanoes have existed throughout
Earth’s history. True or False?

8. A pyroclastic flow is a fast-moving

current of superheated gas and
rock. What temperature can
it reach?

9. Volcanoes are often surrounded by

human settlements. What lures
people to settle there?
GEOGRAPHY

10. There were once active volcanoes

in Britain. True or False?

11. All volcanoes lie on plate

boundaries. True or False?

12. Volcanic ash can disrupt air travel.

True or False?

13. Which of these volcanoes is NOT in

Mexico: Fuji, El Chichon, Paricutin?

14. There are volcanoes in Antarctica.

True or False?

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Deserts

1. All deserts are sandy. True
or False?
2. What is a watering hole in the
desert called?
3. Cacti are native to the Sahara
Desert. True or False?
16. Semiarid lands, which have an
annual rainfall between 10 in
(250 mm) and 20 in (500 mm) are
generally referred to as what?
17. What kind of desert people move
frequently in search of fresh grazing
for their animals?

4. Which animal is known as the 18. What does a camel have to help it
“ship of the desert”? to walk on sand?

5. Which is the world’s 19. How many humps does a Bactrian

smallest desert? camel have?

6. A desert is defined as a place 20. All deserts are hot. True or False?
with less than 10 in (250 mm)
of what each year? 21. What problem is caused by
irrigation in the desert?
7. What is the common name for the
desert plant opuntia? 22. What can cause soil erosion
in the desert?
8. Which of these is NOT a type of
sand dune: seif, castle, barchan? 23. What is the name of Australia’s
vast desertlike area?
9. Where is the Gobi Desert?
24. In the desert, what do plant seeds
10. Much of Antarctica can be classed do during dry periods?
as a desert. True or False?
25. Desert plants that hold water
11. During which time of day are
GEOGRAPHY

are called what?

animals most active in the desert?

12. Rivers cannot flow through deserts.

True or False?

13. Where is the Patagonian Desert?

14. What is a group of camels

carrying goods and traveling
together called?

15. What adaptations help protect

desert plants from being eaten
by animals?

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Where Am I?
1. I can see the Trevi Fountain.
Which Italian city am I in?
2. I’m looking at a large sandstone
pyramid and a large statue of a
lion with a human head—which
country am I in?
3. I’ve just sailed past a large green
lady holding a torch, heading
toward a city full of skyscrapers—
where am I?
4. I’m staring down at a city while
standing next to a huge statue of
Jesus with outstretched arms—
which city am I in?
5. I’ve just climbed the highest
mountain in England—which
mountain am I on?
6. I’m waiting for my plane 15 miles
(24 km) west of Central London—
which airport am I at?
7. I’m watching an eruption of the
geyser Old Faithful—which
national park am I in?
8. I’m standing outside a building
with a roof like ship’s sails, and
in the distance is a large bridge
over the harbor—where am I?
9. I’m in the world’s northernmost
capital city—where am I?
10. I’m standing next to a geyser, and
I’ve just visited the volcano of
Hekla—which country am I in?
11. I’ve just climbed an extinct volcano,
the highest mountain in Africa—
which mountain am I on?
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QUIZ 140
12. I’m on the northernmost of the four
main islands of Japan—where am I?
13. I’m on Devon Island, which is more
than 20,000 sq miles (52,000 sq km)
in area, but has no one living there.
Which country is it a part of?
14. I’m staring down into the
Grand Canyon—which state
am I in?
15. I’m on the main island of this
place, looking at the volcano
of Mauna Loa and wearing a
flower garland—where am I?
16. I’m cruising along a river and
can see the Luxor Temple from
the boat—which river am I on?
17. I’m watching the monsoon rains
fall in the capital of Bangladesh—
which city am I in?
18. I’m standing in the Mayan ruins
of Chichén Itzá on the Yucatán
Peninsula—which country am I in?
19. I am on the eastern side of the
GEOGRAPHY
Caribbean island of Hispaniola—
where am I?
20. I am on the western side of the
Caribbean island of Hispaniola—
where am I?
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Mountain High
1. How long are the European Alps?
2. Which are highest usually, fold
mountains or block mountains?
3. Kilimanjaro—Africa’s highest
mountain—is a volcano. True
or False?
4. Approximately what percentage
of the world’s surface is covered
by mountains?
5. The top 100 highest mountains in
the world are all in the Himalayas.
True or False?
6. In which continent are the
Atlas Mountains?
7. Measured from base to peak,
the world’s tallest mountain is
Mauna Kea in which country?
8. What is the highest mountain
in the Alps?
9. Observatories are often situated
on the peaks of remote mountains
because the high altitude gives a
GEOGRAPHY
clearer view of the stars. True
or False?
10. Which is the world’s highest peak?
11. Any hill higher than 2,000 ft
(610 m) qualifies as a mountain.
True or False?
12. Fold mountains generally have
which sort of peaks?
13. Some fold mountains are still
growing. True or False?
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14. How fast are the Himalayas
currently growing?
15. Where are the
Drakensberg Mountains?
16. Which is the highest peak in
the Rocky Mountains?
17. In which mountainous area is
the ruined Inca settlement
Machu Picchu situated?
18. Which is the highest and
largest plateau in the world?
19. In which country can the Sierra
Madre Oriental be found?
20. The study of mountains is
called: orthography, topography,
or orography?
21. Which Australian range stretches
from the Grampians to Cape
York Peninsula?
22. Mount Ras Dejen is in which
African mountain range?
23. The Ural Mountains mark
the boundary between which
two continents?
24. Where are the Blue
Ridge Mountains?
25. By which name are Scottish
mountains of more than 3,000 ft
(914 m) known to climbers?
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European Essentials

1. Which European country is famous 17. France is bordered by how

for chocolate and yodeling? many countries?

2. Which colors are seen on the 18. Poland has a North Sea coast.
Spanish flag? True or False?

3. Spain has coasts on which seas?
4. Switzerland is landlocked.
True or False?
5. With an area of 140,000 sq miles
(360,000 sq km), which country
is the largest in Europe?
6. Which country in Europe has the
smallest area?
7. In which country is Monte Carlo?
8. Which country is known as
“the Land of Fire and Ice”?
19. In which European capital does
the Brandenburg Gate stand?
20. Which two countries
border Andorra?
21. Which country does NOT contain
part of the Alps mountain range:
Hungary, France, Slovenia?
22. Tallinn is the capital city of
which country?
23. Which of these countries does NOT
have a border with Germany: Italy,
Denmark, Czech Republic?

9. Which country has islands in 24. Which country created the

the Aegean and Ionian Seas? dessert tiramisu?

10. Which European country is famous 25. Where is Bucharest?

for tulips, clogs, and canals?

11. The United Kingdom is made up

GEOGRAPHY

of how many nations?

12. What connects Sweden and

Denmark?

13. What is the capital city of Spain?

14. What is the capital city of Italy?

15. About 10% of the world’s population

lives in Europe. True or False?

16. Which European country is famous

for feta cheese, the Olympics, and
ancient philosophers?

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African Adventure

1. Which world-famous monuments 15. What is a hammam?

would you see at Giza?
2. On the border between Zambia and
Zimbabwe lies which waterfall?
3. The construction of what in Egypt
in 1869 allowed boats to travel
between the Mediterranean Sea
and the Red Sea?
4. When on safari in South Africa,
the lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant,
and rhino are known as what?
5. Where do the Tuareg live?
20. Equatorial Guinea is the only
6. Madagascar is the fourth-largest
island in the world. True or False?
16. Lemurs are found in the wild only
on which island?
17. What is the currency of Malawi?
18. Which peak in Egypt is where
Moses received the Ten
Commandments, according
to the Biblical tradition?
19. Guinea-Bissau was the first
Portuguese colony to gain
independence. True or False?
French-speaking country in
western Africa. True or False?

7. The Koutoubia Mosque is in

which city?

8. What is the capital of Sudan?

9. In which country is Timbuktu?

10. Who built the temples of

Abu Simbel?

11. In what year was the FIFA World

GEOGRAPHY

Cup hosted in South Africa?

12. Yamoussoukro is the capital of

which nation of western Africa?

13. Which country’s flag features

half a gear wheel, a machete,
and a star?

14. Which of the Seven Wonders of

the Ancient World was located
in Alexandria?

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Megacities
1. What is a megacity?
2. Which Japanese metropolitan area is
home to more than 37 million people?
3. Mumbai in India used to be
called what?
4. Lagos is a megacity in which
African country?
5. The population of London rose
by 500% between 1801 and 1891.
True or False?
6. In 2017, how many cities in the
world had a population of
10 million or more?
7. What is the name of the slum
settlements attached to many
major cities?
8. How many Indian cities are in the
“Top 20 megacities” by population?
9. In addition to London, which are the
two other European megacities?
10. Which American megacity covers
34,000 sq miles (87,000 sq km)?
11. What is the biggest city in Brazil?
12. Which megacity straddles
two continents?
13. What is the capital of Pakistan?
14. The megacity formerly known as
“Calcutta” is now known as what?
15. Approximately how many
Mumbai families live on the
city’s sidewalks?
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QUIZ 144
16. Which city had a population of
more than one million around
2,000 years ago?
17. More people around the world
now live in the countryside rather
than in cities. True or False?
18. The most crowded megacity
is Manila in the Philippines.
True or False?
19. Which megacity is said to have the
most beautiful underground system?
20. The biggest megacities are found on
which continent?
21. In which city was the first
skyscraper built?
22. How many megacities are there in
North America?
23. Megacity Seoul is the capital of
which country?
24. What is the biggest megacity
in China?
25. More than half of Africa’s
GEOGRAPHY
population live in megacities.
True or False?
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Name That Day

1. January 1 is… ? 11. In the US, July 4 is… ?

2. In the US, the third Monday in 12. In France, July 14 is… ?

January is… ?
13. In Spain, the last Wednesday in
3. February 14 is… ? August is… ?

4. In the US, the third Monday in 14. For the British Navy, October 21
February is… ? is… ?

5. March 17 is… ? 15. In India, October 2 is… ?

6. In the UK, April 23 is… ? 16. In Germany, October 3 is… ?

7. In Australia, April 25 is… ? 17. October 31 is… ?

8. In the US, the fourth Thursday 18. In a number of countries,

in November is… ? November 11 is… ?

9. In Canada, June 21 is… ? 19. In Brazil, November 15 is… ?

10. In Canada, July 1 is… ? 20. December 25 is… ?

GEOGRAPHY

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National Dishes
1. A tagine from this country is
meat braised slowly with fruit,
vegetables, and a heady mix of
spices, including saffron, cumin,
coriander, and nutmeg.
2. The Balmain Bug is a type
of what food, eaten regularly
in Sydney?
3. The city of Bologna, famous for
its pasta sauce, is located in which
European country?
4. Which dish of melted cheese and
cubes of bread is a national dish
of Switzerland?
5. Originally a Spanish dish, chili
con carne has spread around the
world and is the official dish of
which US state?
6. Pho is a hot noodle soup, brimming
with vegetables and meat, that is
traditionally eaten in Vietnam for
which meal?
7. The Polish stew bigos traditionally
contains at least five different kinds
of meat. True or False?
8. What is the name of the sausage
formed in a continual spiral that
is popular in South Africa?
9. A famous dish in China
involving paper-thin pancakes
is called Peking what?
10. Moules-frites literally translates
to mean “mussels–French fries”
and is the national dish of
which country?
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QUIZ 146
11. A phrase often used to describe
someone as typically American is
“as American as” what?
12. Which European country is famous
for desserts such as tarte tatin,
crème brûlée, and crêpes?
13. The tandoor oven is widely used
in India. What is it traditionally
made from?
14. What kind of food is bratwurst,
particularly popular in Germany?
15. Rice noodle roll, steamed dumplings,
and pork buns are all part of which
Chinese style of food?
16. A taco traditionally describes food
wrapped in a corn tortilla and is a
famous dish from which country?
17. Which dish is traditionally associated
with the British seaside?
18. Nasi Goreng is a traditional dish
of Indonesia. What does the name
literally mean?
19. What is the name of the Spanish
GEOGRAPHY
dish consisting of rice, seafood,
and vegetables?
20. Baklava is made with layers of puff
pastry, honey, and pistachio nuts.
True or False?
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World Superlatives

1. Which is the highest mountain 16. Which is the world’s largest glacier?
in the world?
17. Which is the world’s biggest island?
2. Which is the longest river in
the world? 18. Which is the largest continent in
the world?
3. Where is the deepest lake in
the world? 19. Which is the highest capital city
in the world?
4. Which is the longest mountain
range in the world? 20. Which is the world’s largest
freshwater lake by surface area?
5. Which is the world’s
largest country? 21. Which is the world’s
highest continent?
6. Which is the smallest country
in the world? 22. Which is the smallest continent?

7. There are more member nations
in FIFA than the United Nations.
True or False?
8. Where are the highest waterfalls
in the world?
9. Which is the longest river
in England?
23. Which city has the world’s largest
plaza or square?
24. Which is the biggest and deepest
ocean: Pacific, Indian, or Arctic?
25. Where is the world’s longest
railroad platform?

10. Which is the most populous and

richest state in the United States?
GEOGRAPHY

11. Where is the driest desert in

the world?

12. Which is the largest desert

in the world?

13. Where is the lowest exposed land

point below sea level?

14. Which is the world’s

highest volcano?

15. Which is the world’s

biggest rain forest?

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Famous Landmarks

1. In which city would you find an
opera house by the harbor that
was built in 1959?
2. In which city is the Colosseum?
15. In which city can you walk beside
the Liffey River?
16. The Teatro alla Scala Opera House
can be seen where?

3. Measuring over 13,000 miles 17. Where is the Little Mermaid?

(21,000 km) long, where is
the Great Wall?
4. The Unknown Soldier lies beneath
a landmark in Paris. Which one?
5. What is the name of the most famous
baroque fountain in Rome?
6. The Bridge of Sighs is in
which Italian city?
18. Mumbai’s oldest landmark is
the what?
19. In which European city is
Notre-Dame Cathedral?
20. Which well-known London
department store was rebuilt after
a fire in 1880 and is now a popular
attraction for many visitors?

7. Which city in the desert is

famous for casinos and chapels
for speedy marriages?

8. In which Tuscan city would you

find a Leaning Tower?

9. Gaudí buildings are a landmark

of which city?

10. This beautiful building in Agra,

GEOGRAPHY

India, was commissioned by

Emperor Shah Jahan. What is it?

11. In which English seaside city

was an Oriental-style Royal Pavilion
built for the prince regent?

12. Which castle and royal residence

is in Berkshire, England?

13. In which country can the Great

Pyramid of Cholula be seen?

14. In which city would you find

the Golden Gate Bridge?

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Famous Skyscrapers

1. Where is the Burj Khalifa, the 14. In which Scandinavian country is

tallest skyscraper in the world? the Turning Torso skyscraper?

2. The 1889 Rand McNally Building 15. In which year was New York’s
was the first steel skyscraper ever iconic World Trade Center destroyed
built. In which city does it stand? by terrorists?

3. In which year was the Empire State 16. Where would you find the Hotel &
Building completed in New York? Casino Grand Lisboa skyscraper?

4. Which towers in Kuala Lumpur
stand 558 ft (170 m) high?
5. Which skyscraper was nicknamed
“the big boxer shorts” by a Beijing
taxi driver?
6. The Bitexco Financial Tower
skyscraper sits in the capital city
of which Asian country?
7. Standing at 269 ft (82 m) high, in
which year did New York’s Flatiron
Building become the tallest
skyscraper in the world?
8. In which country is the 991-ft
(302-m) Kingdom Center?
17. The 1,450-ft (442-m) Willis Tower
in Chicago, the tallest building
in the Western Hemisphere, was
formerly named the Sears Tower.
True or False?
18. Which building replaced
New York’s Twin Towers?
19. Which Hong Kong building was
criticized by feng shui masters
for its sharp corners?
20. The Tour First in Paris is
higher than the Eiffel Tower.
True or False?

9. When was the Tokyo Mode Gakuen

GEOGRAPHY

Cocoon Tower completed?

10. Which skyscraper that looks like a

ship’s sail is sometimes called “the
world’s only seven-star hotel”?

11. Which Taiwanese skyscraper has been

designed to look like a bamboo stalk?

12. In which city is the Spanish

skyscraper Torre Agbar?

13. London’s skyscraper at 30 St. Mary

Axe is more commonly known
as what?

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All about the Americas
1. Where was the earliest known
use of chocolate, around 1100 bce:
Mexico, Honduras, or Peru?
2. Which state did the US buy from
Russia in 1867?
3. How many stripes does the
American flag have?
4. What is the official language
of Brazil?
5. The widest road in the world,
Avenida 9 de Julio, is in Buenos
Aires. After what is it named?
6. What kind of vegetation grows on
the salt lake in Uyuni, Bolivia?
7. Which state has the
fewest counties?
8. In which country is the road
that, in 1995, was christened
“the world’s most dangerous
road” by the Inter-American
Development Bank?
9. Estado Unidos Mexicanos is
the official name of Mexico.
True or False?
10. The Northern Lights, or
aurora borealis, can be seen
from which state?
11. By what name are the grassy
plains of Argentina known?
12. How is almost 90 percent of
Brazil’s electricity generated?
13. Venezuela was named after
which city?
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14. Which islands off the coast of
Ecuador are famously connected
to Charles Darwin’s theory of
evolution by natural selection?
15. Which is the only US state that
borders only one other state?
16. Who was the first European to reach
what is now Costa Rica?
17. What is the name of one of the
highest freshwater lakes in
the world, which is also the
largest lake in South America?
18. Which is the only island state
in the US?
19. Name the two countries in South
America that do not border Brazil.
20. Alaska was the last state to join
the union of the United States of
America. True or False?
21. Which animal is on the flag
of California?
22. When was the Declaration of
GEOGRAPHY
Independence signed?
23. Disneyland is a national park.
True or False?
24. In which state are the
Bonneville Salt Flats?
25. In which state is the Liberty Bell?
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Shaking Planet

1. Name the scientific scale 13. Which country experiences

most commonly used to
measure earthquakes.
2. Name the fault that runs
through California.
3. Buildings constructed from which
material are most likely to remain
standing during an earthquake?
4. How much stronger is an
earthquake of 6 on the Richter
scale than one of 5?
the most earthquakes?
14. Name the observational scale
used to record earthquake impact.
15. Which state experiences the
most earthquakes?
16. The fastest type of shockwave
is known by which letter?
17. Where do earthquakes
usually occur?

5. What term refers to the point on
Earth’s surface that lies directly
over the site of the ruptured fault
in an earthquake?
6. What term refers to the point
deep inside Earth’s crust where
an earthquake starts?
20. What term do geographers use
7. What name is given to geologists
who specialize in the study
of earthquakes?
18. Which country experienced the
strongest earthquake ever recorded
(9.5 on the Richter scale) in 1960?
19. What term is used to describe
a small quake following the
main earthquake?
to describe a wave of energy
released by an earthquake?

8. What instrument is used to

measure earthquakes?
GEOGRAPHY

9. Following an earthquake in 1906,

much of the city of San Francisco
was destroyed by what?

10. A large wave triggered by

an earthquake is called what?

11. Off which country’s coast was was

the 2011 To¯ hoku earthquake?

12. During a 2011 earthquake,

the coast of North America
was shifted 8 ft (2.4 m). True
or False?

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River Deep

1. On which river would you find 15. Which river flows through
the Hoover Dam? Memphis, Tennessee?

2. How many capital cities does 16. With a drop of 590 ft (180 m), what
the Danube River flow through? is England’s highest waterfall?

3. What name is used by geographers
to describe the deep pool that forms
at the bottom of a waterfall?
4. Which river has the Chinese
government tried to tame with
the Three Gorges Dam project?
5. Which is the largest river system?
20. An area of land formed where
6. The shortest river in the world is
only 201 ft (61 m) long. It is the Roe
River in Montana. True or False?
17. The Mississippi River flows into the
Mediterranean Sea. True or False?
18. In 2010, what was the world’s
largest hydroelectric power station?
19. Pebbles and sand deposited by
rivers are known as what?
sediment is deposited in the mouth
of a large river is known as a what?

7. Which river forms part of

the border between the United
States and Mexico?

8. What term refers to a small river

that flows into a larger river?

9. What term describes the point

where two rivers meet?

10. In which country would you

GEOGRAPHY

find the world’s tallest waterfall?

11. Which is the largest river

in China?

12. How many countries does the

Mekong River flow through?

13. Into which sea does the

Volga flow?

14. What process makes the rocks

on the bed of a fast-flowing river
become smooth over time?

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Capitals
1. Which country’s filmmaking
capital is called Nollywood?
2. Which capital city can be reached
on the shinkansen or “bullet train”?
3. Which of these capitals is
farther north: Amsterdam,
Helsinki, Bucharest?
4. Which city is closest to the equator:
Buenos Aires, Havana, Dakar?
5. The capital of Ukraine lies on
which river?
6. Which capital city was created
from two cities lying on either
side of the Danube?
7. In which capital city is there a
historic flat-topped rock called
the Acropolis?
8. Which African capital city
lies farthest north: Accra,
Harare, Algiers?
9. Which island, also the name
of a popular cartoon film, has
GEOGRAPHY
a capital called Antananarivo?
10. Doha is the capital of which
Gulf Arab state?
11. What is the capital of
North Korea?
12. Madrid has never hosted the
Olympic Games. True or False?
13. Which of these capitals is farther
south: Madrid or Ottawa?
14. What is Croatia’s capital?
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15. What is the capital of the South
American state of Uruguay?
16. Where would you find the capital
city Paramaribo?
17. Port Stanley is the capital of which
group of islands?
18. What is the name of Canada’s
capital city, which lies north of
New York State?
19. Which South American country’s
capital is La Paz?
20. Which capital city lies farther
north: Edinburgh or Copenhagen?
21. The Australian capital Canberra
comes from an Aboriginal word
meaning: meeting place, eating
place, dancing place?
22. What was the first capital of Egypt
under Muslim rule?
23. The Tiber River flows through
which capital city?
24. Of which country is Bogotá
the capital?
25. Near which Asian capital city is
the temple of Kalaniya, reputedly
visited by Buddha?
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Agriculture around the World

1. Rice is the only crop grown in 15. Which are the world’s most
paddy fields. True or False? numerous farm animals?

2. Reindeer herding is one of the
few forms of nomadic or shifting
husbandry practiced outside the
tropics. True or False?
3. In which country was maize
first cultivated?
4. About when did agriculture begin?
16. What do the initials “GM” stand for
in crop production terminology?
17. Barley is not one of the top five
food staples (providers of energy)
in the world. True or False?
18. Which country is the leading
producer (not exporter) of rice?

5. Approximately how many people 19. Sugar beet is not normally grown
are actively involved with farming? on a plantation. True or False?

6. What percentage of the world’s 20. Viticulture refers to growing

surface is used for agriculture of what crop?
some sort?

7. The land used for agriculture was

originally grassland. True or False?

8. Agriculture can cause soil erosion.

True or False?

9. What name is given to the

form of agriculture that raises
only crops?

10. There are 2 million wild plant species

GEOGRAPHY

on Earth. How many of them

produce food that humans can eat?

11. Does soil form naturally very

slowly or at relatively fast rate?

12. Agriculture contributes to the

production of greenhouse gases,
including which gas in particular?

13. What is commercial horticulture?

14. What sometimes happens to damage

the soil when crops are irrigated?

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Extreme World
1. What is the height of the
mountain K2?
2. In which country are the world’s
deepest mines?
3. Which sea is 1,388 ft (423 m)
below sea level?
4. Of the 109 tallest mountains
on Earth, 96 are in which
mountain range?
5. Which is the largest island in
the Caribbean?
6. What is the highest mountain in
South America, standing 22,841 ft
(6,962 m) high?
7. The longest river system in
Australia is named after which
two explorers?
8. In which year in the 1980s was
the Great Storm that swept across
the south of England, causing
great damage?
9. Top hotels are listed as five-star
GEOGRAPHY
hotels. How many stars did the
Burj al Arab hotel in Dubai
award itself?
10. In which Asian country does the
world’s largest lizard, the Komodo
dragon, live in the wild?
11. What is unusual about the hotel
in Jukkasjärvi in Sweden?
12. Europe’s tallest mountain is what?
13. Where is the deepest point in
the Pacific Ocean?
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14. What might you find in the
Lascaux caves of France?
15. Which of these cities receives the
lowest annual rainfall: New York,
London, Tangiers?
16. Which butterfly migrates from the
northern US to Mexico and back
every year?
17. Europe’s longest road and rail bridge
is the Øresund Bridge. Which two
countries does it connect?
18. The highest inhabited place on
Earth is where?
19. When it’s noon in Moscow, what
time is it in Magadan in the
Russian Far East?
20. In which country is Fraser Island,
the world’s largest sand island?
21. Where is the deepest
continental shelf?
22. Where is the world’s highest
capital city?
23. Where are the Nazca Lines?
24. Where has the highest temperature
on Earth been recorded?
25. Why is Kamchatka in Russia
called “Valley of Death”?
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Populations

1. With around 1.4 billion people, 14. India is the country with the highest
which country has the highest sex ratio (number of males for each
population in the world? female) in the world. True or False?

2. With around 800 people, which
country has the smallest population
in the world?
3. Approximately how many
people live on Earth?
15. By which year will a decline in the
world’s population have begun?
16. According to estimates, how
many people have been born in
the last 2,000 years?

4. Which country had a 17. Which is the most populated

“one-child policy” to cut continent in the world?
down on overpopulation?
18. Which country has the
5. During the last 40 years, the fastest-growing population?
world’s population has what?
19. Which was the first country in
6. In 2020, approximately how the world to reach a population
many people are there for every of one billion?
square kilometer in the world?
20. Since which decade has a
7. What is the world’s population worldwide population-control
estimated to be in 2055? movement been active?

8. Approximately how many

people live in the United States?

9. With around 13,000 people,

what is the world’s smallest
GEOGRAPHY

independent republic?

10. In which year did the world’s

population reach five billion people?

11. The population of some countries,

such as Nigeria, is not even known
to the nearest million. True or False?

12. What is the world’s population

estimated to do before the end of
the 21st century?

13. Which country has the second-

largest population in the world?

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Language in Africa

1. How many languages are there 15. Which of these languages is

in Africa?
2. Where in Africa are Austronesian
languages spoken?
3. When was the “Year of
African Languages”?
4. How many people are thought
to speak Swahili?
5. How many official languages does
the Republic of South Africa have:
2, 4, 10, 16?
6. What is the official language
spoken in Benin?
7. A number of the world’s creole
languages are spoken in Africa.
True or False?
NOT spoken in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo: German,
Kikongo, Lingala?
16. How many speakers of the
Somali language are there?
17. Amharic is the Semitic language
spoken in which African country?
18. How many languages are
spoken in Nigeria?
19. Where in Africa is the Berber
language most frequently spoken?
20. Apart from English, what is the
official language of Botswana?

8. What are the official languages

of Chad?

9. Tonal languages are virtually

nonexistent in Africa. True
or False?

10. Along with Swazi, what is the official

GEOGRAPHY

language spoken in Swaziland?

11. Tigrinya is an African language

spoken where?

12. What is the official language

spoken in Guinea-Bissau?

13. Algerian Sign Language was

officially recognized by law in
which year?

14. What is the official language

of Gambia?

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Island Nations
1. Which island nation has the
most islands?
2. Which island nation is made up
of the North Island and the
South Island?
3. Which Pacific Island nation is
ruled by a monarchy?
4. In 2011, what percentage of UN
members were island nations?
5. Nuuk is the capital of the world’s
biggest island, which is?
6. Bahrain is an island nation in
which body of water?
7. Which island nation is famous
for its cigars?
8. Which island nation is also
a continent?
9. What is the approximate
population of the Pacific
Ocean’s Marshall Islands?
10. Which island nation’s closest
neighbor is Korea?
11. In which body of water is the
island nation of Taiwan located?
12. The Republic of Maldives is
situated in the Pacific Ocean.
True or False?
13. How many main islands does the
island nation of Bahrain feature?
14. Situated off the southern tip
of the Malay Peninsula is which
island nation?
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QUIZ 158
15. The capital city of the island nation
of Jamaica is what?
16. The Philippines includes more than
7,000 islands. True or False?
17. Which island nation is home to
the boiling-hot Geysir?
18. Which island nation is home to
the ring-tailed lemur, the lacewings,
and the fossa?
19. Which island nation has
Greek and Turkish residents?
20. In which island nation did the
flightless moa once roam?
21. Which Caribbean island nation
was invaded by the US in 1983?
22. Which European language is
spoken in New Caledonia?
23. This island nation’s capital is Port of
Spain, and it consists of 23 islands.
24. This island occupies half of an
island that was Indonesian. It
GEOGRAPHY
declared independence in 2002.
25. How many island nations are
part of Africa?
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Famous Natural Landmarks in the US

1. Which colossal natural landmark 14. The highest mountain in the

was formed 17 million years ago United States is what?
by the Colorado River?
15. Hawaii’s Makalawena Marsh
2. Which mammoth monolithic dried up in 2010 and was removed
rock stands 236 ft (72 m) high from the list of US National Natural
on Oregon’s Cannon Beach? Landmarks. True or False?

3. How many tourists does Niagara
Falls attract every year?
4. Nearly 7,000 years ago, the
collapse of Mount Mazama
created Crater Lake. In which
state can it be seen?
5. Which national park spans
Wyoming and parts of Montana
and Idaho?
6. How high are the Yosemite Falls?
16. Which of these is NOT a rock
formation in the American
Southwest’s Monument Valley:
Camel Butte, Lady Luck’s
Ladder, the Three Sisters?
17. Which president designated
Devils Tower as the first National
Monument in the United States?
18. It is estimated that 300 tourists
go missing in Indiana’s Pinhook
Bog every year. True or False?

7. Richard Nixon is shown on Mount 19. On the border of which two states
Rushmore. True or False? does the Hoover Dam sit?

8. Which state has 36 landmarks, 20. Mono Lake has large limestone
more than any other in the US? spikes sticking out of the water.
In which state is it located?
9. What is the name of the national
park in Maine?
GEOGRAPHY

10. The Alaska Range is home

to which glacier?

11. The Rainbow Bridge is 275 ft

(84 m) across and 289 ft (88 m)
high. Where can you go to see it?

12. Established in 1929, in

which state is Grand Teton
National Park?

13. What is the name of

Yellowstone National Park’s
most famous geyser?

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Iceland
1. In which year did Iceland
become an independent republic?
2. Iceland has been a nuclear-free
zone since 1985. True or False?
3. In which century did Norse
chieftain Ingólfur Arnarson
settle in Iceland?
4. What is Iceland the only
NATO member not to have?
5. What is the name of
Iceland’s parliament?
6. Where did Iceland’s parliament
first meet, now a national park?
7. Geographically, which is
Iceland’s closest neighbor?
8. Iceland’s most famous geyser
is called what?
9. How many counties does
Iceland have?
10. What is Iceland’s main form
of transportation?
11. Approximately what is the
population of Iceland?
12. Along with Nordic, what is
the common ancestry of
native Icelanders?
13. Only one person from Iceland
has received a Nobel Prize.
What was it for?
14. Which form of sea hunting is
traditional in Iceland, though
largely abandoned elsewhere?
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QUIZ 160
15. According to the Global Peace
Index, Iceland is what?
16. Iceland has the highest per-capita
consumption in Europe of which
popular drink?
17. What is Iceland’s only native
land mammal?
18. Which of these is NOT an Icelandic
volcano: Hekla, Kópavogur, Eldfell?
19. What is the main religious
denomination in Iceland?
20. In which year did the Icelandic
government take control of the
country’s three banks?
21. Iceland is the most sparsely
populated country in Europe.
True or False?
22. What is the native language
of Iceland?
23. Two disasters of the same kind
hit Iceland in 1995, killing many
people. What were they?
GEOGRAPHY
24. What is the traditional covering
for Icelandic houses?
25. What is the highest waterfall
in Iceland?
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Wild Weather

1. Where do tropical cyclones form? 14. What term do meteorologists use to

2. How fast can the winds get in
a large tornado?
3. What is the scientific term for
a storm cloud?
4. What term do meteorologists use
to describe the noise made by a
lightning bolt?
describe a heavy snowstorm?
15. Storm surges are hazards linked
to tornadoes. True or False?
16. What are periods of extremely low
rainfall known as?
17. When pollution and fog mix, what
is created?

5. Light travels more slowly 18. At what temperature is snow most

through water than through air, likely to fall?
which causes it to be refracted.
The result is a what? 19. What hazard becomes more likely
after several days of snowfall?
6. What weather hazard is created
by the buildup of static in 20. What term is used to describe
storm clouds? sustained winds of above
40 mph (64 kmph)?
7. What falls from the sky at
87 mph (140 kmph) and can weigh
up to 1.5 lb (0.7 kg)?

8. Which ocean current is associated

with floods in America and
droughts in Australia?

9. Roughly how many

GEOGRAPHY

tornadoes occur in the US

every year?

10. What is measured using the

Beaufort Scale?

11. What name is given to a tornado

that forms over water?

12. What scale is used to measure the

strength of a hurricane?

13. What term is used to describe

whirlwinds of sand that form
in deserts?

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Lakes, Rivers, and Mountains
1. What is the longest river in Europe?
2. The Danube River flows through
Sofia. True or False?
3. Which partly submerged mountain
is higher than Everest?
4. The Amazon River is home to more
species of fish than the Atlantic
Ocean. True or False?
5. The Himalayas cross five
countries, including Pakistan,
Bhutan, India, and which other
two countries?
6. Lake Superior has its own tide.
True or False?
7. Which is the world’s
third-longest river?
8. Which river carries the greatest
volume of water?
9. How old is the youngest person to
reach the peak of Mount Everest?
10. What nationality was Edmund
Hillary, one of the first two
people to climb Everest?
11. What is the largest salt lake
in Australia?
12. There are roughly 96 major
rivers on Earth. True or False?
13. In which country is Mount
Fuji located?
14. Lake Baikal contains roughly
20 percent of the world’s surface
fresh water. True or False?
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QUIZ 162
15. What is South America’s longest
mountain range?
16. Where are the Atlas Mountains?
17. How many bridges are there over
the Amazon?
18. The highest peaks in the Western
Hemisphere are found where?
19. What is the name given to the study
of lakes?
20. Which country contains roughly
half of the world’s lakes?
21. Which lake is bordered by Germany,
Austria, and Switzerland?
22. Lake Chad in Africa crosses four
countries. True or False?
23. What is the name of the group
of long, thin lakes near New
York City?
24. In which part of a river does water
flow the fastest—lower, middle, or
upper course?
GEOGRAPHY
25. Where is Mount Sinai?
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Wild Extreme Earth
1. Where are there more toxic species
per square mile than anywhere else
in the world?
2. Tristan da Cunha is the most
remote inhabited archipelago
on Earth. How far away is it
from the nearest continent?
3. What is the name of Tristan da
Cunha’s capital?
4. Where is the hottest place on Earth,
with a record temperature of
136°F (57.8°C)?
5. Where is the coldest inhabited place
on Earth, with the temperature once
dropping to -96.2°F (-71.2°C)?
6. It is so cold in Oymyakon that
locals say birds freeze to death
in mid-flight. True or False?
7. Which country would you stay
away from to avoid meeting the
giant huntsman spider, the
largest spider on Earth?
8. Gansbaai in South Africa is a
GEOGRAPHY
popular beach resort. Its waters
are also home to the largest
number of what in the world?
9. What is the name of deepest point
of the world’s oceans, at 35,840 ft
(10,924 m)?
10. What is the world’s highest
waterfall, at 3,230 ft (984 m)?
11. The fattail scorpion is so poisonous
that one sting can kill a man in
minutes. Is it found in Australia,
the Middle East, or Brazil?
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12. Which US state has the most
alligators, with a population
of more than one million?
13. In which US state do alligators and
crocodiles live side by side?
14. What is home to the largest
collection of living plants and
animal species in the world?
15. The Amazon Rain Forest is
2,123,562 sq miles (5,500,000 sq km)
in size. True or False?
16. Where in Africa are there
45 species of mammals and almost
500 species of birds in one area?
17. What is the driest and coldest place
on Earth and generally considered
the wildest to visit?
18. In which country is the wettest
place in the world, with the highest
average yearly rainfall?
19. Antarctica’s Dry Valleys are the
driest in the world. How long has
it been since the valleys last
had rainfall?
20. Which country has more venomous
snakes than any other country in
the world?
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The Americas
1. Which mountain chain runs
down the western side of
North America?
2. More than 60 percent of the Amazon
Rain Forest lies in which country?
3. Humans first settled in the
Americas between which years?
4. When did Christopher Columbus
first land in the Americas?
5. What is the highest lake in
the Americas?
6. South America broke off from the
supercontinent Gondwana about
how many years ago?
7. Aconcagua of Argentina is the
highest peak in South America.
True or False?
8. What is the southernmost point
of the Americas?
9. The Mississippi–Missouri river
system drains how many of the
states in the US?
10. More people live in Brazil than
in the United States. True or False?
11. Canada’s population is less than
a quarter of the US population.
True or False?
12. Where is the largest urban
area of the Americas, with
a population of around
21 million people?
13. How many sovereign states
lie within the Americas?
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QUIZ 164
14. What religion has the
largest number of followers
in the Americas?
15. Tornado Alley in the US ironically
has never been hit by a tornado.
True or False?
16. What links the continents of North
and South America?
17. What is the northernmost point of
the Americas?
18. The Cascades are a range in which
North American mountain group?
19. What proportion of the world’s
animals can be found in the
Amazon Rain Forest?
20. Río de la Plata Basin in South
America is one of the smallest river
basins on Earth. True or False?
21. How many stripes are on
the American flag?
22. What is the address of the
White House?
GEOGRAPHY
23. Which US state is known for its
Extraterrestrial Highway?
24. Which city had the first Starbucks?
25. Where would you eat gumbo?
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Natural Disasters on Earth

1. Which natural phenomenon can 15. Volcanoes exist only on land.

produce the fastest winds on Earth? True or False?

2. Up to what speed can the winds 16. The Mediterranean island

reach in a tornado? of Thera devastated by a volcanic
eruption around 1600 bce is now
3. What is a tsunami sometimes known as… ?
incorrectly called?
17. Which volcano erupted in
4. What natural disaster has a Washington State in 1980?
hypocenter and an epicenter?
18. For what purpose was the Thames
5. What is a tornado commonly Barrier put into operation in 1982?
known as?
19. Floods are often caused by a river’s
6. Cyclones always form over water. banks being broken. True or False?
True or False?
20. Which city in Europe was hit by a
7. Based on the number of reported catastrophic earthquake in 1755?
incidents, what are the odds of being
struck by lightning?

8. What happened to Hog Island,

New York, in 1893?

9. What was invented by Benjamin

Franklin to protect buildings from
lightning strikes?

10. What is it called when snow

GEOGRAPHY

suddenly flows down a slope?

11. What is the most dangerous

type of avalanche, which
can reach speeds of up to
80 mph (129 kmph)?

12. Where was the strongest

recorded earthquake?

13. What did it measure on the

Richter scale?

14. How many active volcanoes are

there on Earth?

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Deep Blue Sea

1. What is the Sea of Cortez also
known as?
2. What term is used to describe a ring
of coral islands?
3. Coral reefs are made of what
type of rock?
4. Life on the ocean floor can be
supported by hydrothermal vents.
These volcanic features are also
known as what?
14. Some deep sea creatures that live in
total darkness create their own light.
What is it called?
15. Which marine ecosystem is able to
sustain the greatest diversity of life?
16. Which at is the heaviest
marine invertebrate?
17. Which term is used to describe an
underwater plain at depths greater
than 9,850 ft (3,000 m)?

5. On average, what is the salinity of
the world’s oceans?
6. Whirlpools form alongside powerful
tidal currents. Where is the world’s
largest whirlpool?
7. Below which depth is the ocean
entirely dark?
8. Which is the saltiest water body?
18. Which of these are found in the
deep sea: vampire fish, giant
spider crab, anglerfish?
19. Drinking sea water will kill
you faster than dehydration.
True or False?
20. With an average depth of just
23 ft (7 m), which is the world’s
shallowest sea?

9. What name has been given to

the calm zone in the North Atlantic,
famous for enormous “rafts” of
floating seaweed?
GEOGRAPHY

10. What is the name of the cold Pacific

current that allows penguins to live
on the tropical Galápagos Islands?

11. Which term is used to describe the

swarms of tiny animals that drift
among surface algae?

12. Below which depth is there

insufficient light to support
photosynthesis?

13. Which ocean accounts for

40 percent of the world’s oil?

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Natural Wonders
1. Monument Valley is famous for its
sandstone rock formations, called
mesas and buttes. Where is it?
2. In which South American
country would you find the
tallest waterfall on Earth,
named after an aviator who
flew over the site?
3. If you were a “spelunker,”
which natural feature would
you like exploring?
4. Mitre Peak in Milford Sound
is one of the most distinctive
peaks in the world. In which
country is it located?
5. The northern lights are also
known as the “aurora borealis.”
What are the southern
lights called?
6. The Egyptian resort of Sharm
el Sheikh is famous for its diving.
In which body of water does the
diving take place?
7. Which natural feature on the coast
GEOGRAPHY
of northern Ireland was produced
by a volcanic eruption?
8. Dome, pinnacle, edge, and
dry-dock are all types of which
natural feature?
9. Iguazu Falls are made up of 275
different waterfalls and lie on the
border between Brazil and which
other country?
10. Which island is famous for
the annual migration of
millions of red crabs?
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11. South America’s largest and highest
navigable lake is what?
12. Which member of the whale family
grows a single tusk up to 8 ft (2.4 m)
long on its head?
13. The lowest point in Australia is also
the site of its largest lake, which fills
only two or three times a century.
What is it called?
14. The waterfall Mosi-oa-Tunya, or
“the smoke that thunders,” was
renamed by David Livingstone
after which queen?
15. Nearly half of the continental US is
drained by which mighty river?
16. How deep is the Grand Canyon at
its deepest point?
17. Fjords are deep, steep-sided
valleys carved by glaciers. Which
Scandinavian country is the best
place to see them?
18. Japan’s tallest mountain is a
symmetrical, snow-capped
volcanic cone. What is it called?
19. Which Australian tourist attraction
can be seen from space?
20. Which tree, found in several
locations in Africa, is also
known as the “bottle tree”
or “upside-down tree”?
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Erupting Earth

1. Which term is used to describe a 13. How often does Old Faithful,
steep-sided volcano made from Yellowstone’s most famous
eruptions of ash and lava? geyser, erupt?

2. Which volcanic hazard consists 14. What forms when silica-rich

of deadly superheated gas and lava solidifies with gas bubbles
rock particles? trapped inside?

3. Which rock, which erupts from
spreading rifts and hotspots, forms
the bedrock of the ocean floors?
4. Which geological term refers
to an area of unusually high
volcanic activity?
5. Mount Sidley is the highest
volcano in which continent?
15. Australia has no active volcanoes.
True or False?
16. Mauna Kea is the largest volcano
in the world. True or False?
17. A catastrophic volcanic eruption
in the second millennium bce is
associated with the collapse of
which legendary city?

6. Who was the American seismologist 18. The eruption of which volcano in
in the 1930s who gave his name to 1815 led to widespread famine?
the scale he invented for measuring
earthquakes? 19. Which is the most active volcano
on Earth?
7. What name is given to the volcanic
zone encircling the Pacific? 20. Snowdon in Wales is an extinct
volcano. True or False?
8. Which kind of volcanic rock forms
when lava cools too quickly for
crystals to grow?
GEOGRAPHY

9. Which of the following in 1980 were

signs that Mount St. Helens was about
to erupt: volcano’s side bulging,
increase in local air temperature,
animals leaving the area?

10. Which term is used to describe

a volcano that rarely erupts?

11. Mount Fuji is dormant.

True or False?

12. Where is the volcano

Mount Rainier?

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Lakes and Wetlands
1. Which area of wetlands covers much
of southern Florida?
2. With depths of 1 mile (1.6 km),
which is the world’s deepest lake?
3. Which is the highest navigable
lake in the world?
4. Which is the deepest lake in
England’s Lake District?
5. Name the African lake that
has shrunk to one-fifth of its
original size over the past
50 years.
6. Which is the largest freshwater
lake in the world?
7. What percentage of the
world’s fresh surface water
is in Lake Baikal?
8. Four countries have a coastline
on Lake Victoria. True or False?
9. Which inland water body is the
lowest point on Earth’s surface?
10. In which wetland region does much
GEOGRAPHY
of the White Nile’s water evaporate?
11. Which is the smallest of the
Great Lakes?
12. With an average depth of 62 ft
(19 m), which is the shallowest
of the Great Lakes?
13. Georgian and Saginaw Bays are
part of which Great Lake?
14. Which is the largest man-made
lake in the world?
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15. Which is the largest wetland area
in the world?
16. Europe’s largest area of marshland
straddles the border of Belarus and
Ukraine. What is it called?
17. New Zealand’s largest lake lies in
the crater of an extinct volcano.
What is its name?
18. What is the name of the man-made
lake that was created by the
construction of the Hoover Dam?
19. The Volga River starts in which
upland marshy region?
20. Instead of flowing into the sea,
Africa’s Okavango River ends in the
desert, forming the world’s largest
inland delta. True or False?
21. More than half the world’s wetlands
have disappeared since 1900.
True or False?
22. Which gas do wetlands trap from
the atmosphere and store, helping
protect Earth from global warming?
23. What is the Ramsar Convention?
24. Peat bogs are a type of wetland.
True or False?
25. Which of the Great Lakes is the only
one entirely in US territory?
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Glaciers

1. The end of a glacier can be 15. What are the mountains that
called a what? protrude from an ice sheet called?

2. What is happening when a 16. What is the name of a coastal glacial

glacier calves?
3. Glaciers cannot exist at the
equator. True or False?
4. Which of these is NOT a name
for a hollow formed at the head
of a glacier: torrie, carn, panhole?
5. A tributary valley cut off by a
deeper glacial valley is called a what?
6. How much of Earth’s land surface is
covered by ice masses?
7. What percentage of the world’s fresh
water is held in ice masses?
8. Some glaciers contain colonies
of what?
9. What feature might you find at
the place where three or more
glaciers begin?
10. What are the layers of debris that
valley that has been flooded by a
rise in sea level?
17. Where is the world’s
fastest-flowing glacier?
18. The deepest ice core yet drilled
revealed evidence from how
many years ago?
19. The East Antarctica ice sheet
overlies several lakes. What is
the largest of these called?
20. We are still in an Ice Age.
True or False?
21. Which is the only continent that
doesn’t have glaciers?
22. The biggest icebergs in the world
are found where?
23. What makes a glacier move: gravity,
flow of water, wind?
24. What is “surging”?
GEOGRAPHY

may appear as black stripes in a

glacier called?
25. What are the cracks in
11. What is the name for a giant glaciers called?
boulder dumped by a glacier
far from its site of origin?

12. Parts of the Antarctic ice sheet are

more than 21/2 miles (4 km) thick.
True or False?

13. What is the upper part of a glacier

known as?

14. What color is dense glacial ice?

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People of the World
1. According to the United Nations,
what might the population
of Earth be in the year 2025?
2. Capital cities always have the
largest population in the country.
True or False?
3. Many languages in Amazonia
have fewer than 500 speakers.
True or False?
4. Sherpas are a people who live
in Tibet. True or False?
5. The past 200 years have seen
the most radical shift in world-
population patterns in history.
True or False?
6. On which continent is life
expectancy the lowest?
7. Which is the most densely
populated country?
8. Which is the most sparsely
populated part of the world?
9. Which language is spoken by
GEOGRAPHY
more people than any other?
10. When one town grows and merges
with another, it is called a
“conurbation.” True or False?
11. When was the UN Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples passed?
12. What is the approximate population
of New York City’s total urban area?
13. Large urban areas do not affect the
climate around them. True or False?
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14. Which name is given to a graph
that illustrates the age groups
in a country’s population?
15. What is the center of a city or
town called where most of the
commerce goes on?
16. According to the 2009 Happy Planet
Index, run by the New Economics
Foundation, which country is the
world’s happiest?
17. What is the name of the settlements
that are built when large numbers of
people come to towns and there is
not always room for them?
18. An Inuk is a member of
which people?
19. The majority of countries have
a higher population of females
than males. True or False?
20. Which country is considered to
be the world’s wealthiest?
21. Which is the most populous country?
22. How many languages are spoken
in the world: 5,000, 6,000, 7,000?
23. Is there a set of criteria for people
to qualify as indigenous?
24. In which country is First Nations
used to describe the predominant
indigenous people?
25. Which language is the most widely
spoken in India?
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Mixed Bag
1. Which of these countries does
NOT lie on the Tropic of Capricorn:
Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana?
2. Which island group 40 miles (64 km)
west of North Uist in the Hebrides
was inhabited until 1930 but is now
a seabird colony?
3. What is the sandy strip
called that joins some islands
to the mainland?
4. What other (Russian) name
is given to the belt of boreal
conifer forest encircling the
Arctic region?
5. Which sea is surrounded by the
countries Egypt, Sudan, Saudi
Arabia, Eritrea, and Yemen?
6. Which African country used to
be known as the Gold Coast?
7. Where did Christopher Columbus
think he’d arrived when he landed
in the Americas in 1492?
8. What is the name for a stretch
of very deep ocean along
the boundary between two
tectonic plates?
9. Which mountain ridge
marks the eastern edge of
the continent of Europe?
10. Which island nation in the central
Pacific Ocean is especially
threatened by rising sea levels?
11. On which continent are
the Drakensbergs, or
“Dragon Mountains”?
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QUIZ 172
12. The island of Iwo Jima lies in a
chain of volcanic islands stretching
south of which country?
13. The semiarid zone directly
south of the Sahara Desert is
called the what?
14. Europe’s fastest eroding coastline is
on which coast of England?
15. Which English county has several
gritstone “edges” (including Stanage
and Curbar Edge)—cliffs that are
popular with rock-climbers?
16. Which country in the Indian Ocean
has a capital city called Malé?
17. The most common feature created
by wave deposition is what?
18. Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer
who traveled into uncharted
territory in search of the source
of which river?
19. Which Antarctic explorer led his
party to safety via Elephant Island
and South Georgia after their ship
GEOGRAPHY
was crushed by ice?
20. Climbers attempting Mount Everest
reach which zone when they climb
above 26,000 ft (8,000 m)?
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Volcanoes, People, and Gods
1. Which volcanic island was formed
in 1963 off the coast of Iceland?
2. One of the most active volcanoes
in Europe, situated in Sicily,
is called what?
3. Which name is given to molten
rocks that are produced underneath
Earth’s crust and sometimes rise to
the surface?
4. The ocean floors are made of
a dark, heavy rock called what?
5. What is the center of
Earth called?
6. The ancient Romans believed that
the god Atlas carried the world on
his head. True or False?
7. A Hindu myth says that the world
rests on the back of six giant what?
8. The fluid lava of a volcano is
sometimes blown into fine strands.
Hawaiians call this what?
20. After the eruption of the
9. Volcanic hot springs at the bottom
GEOGRAPHY
of the oceans are referred to as what?
10. In Japan, it is a custom to be buried
up to your neck in warm volcanic
ashes to help what?
11. Which European country is almost
entirely made up of volcanic rocks?
12. The edges of the plates that form
the floor of the Pacific Ocean
are called what?
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13. The world’s most-visited volcano
is Mount Vesuvius in Italy. True
or False?
14. Agate is volcanic rock. True
or False?
15. One of the only two survivors of
the 1902 volcanic eruption on the
island of Saint Pierre survived
thanks to what?
16. The most famous plate boundary
in the world is what?
17. The Transamerica Pyramid has
been designed to withstand
earthquakes. In which city is
this unusual building?
18. The point where two plates meet at
an odd angle is called what?
19. In North America, the machine used
to measure small movements along
a fault line is known as a
“creepmeter.” True or False?
Nyamuragira volcano in
the Democratic Republic of the
Congo in 2010, many people got
cholera. Why?
 D I F F I C U LT
US States
1. How many states make up the
United States of America?
2. Which is the southernmost state?
3. Which state is known as “the First
State” because it was the first to
ratify the Constitution in 1787?
4. Which was the last state to join
the United States, in 1959?
5. North Carolina is south of
West Virginia. True or False?
6. Which state is the most populous?
7. Which state is the largest by area?
8. Tallahassee is the capital of
which state?
9. Alaska contains the most northerly,
westerly, and easterly points of
the US. True or False?
10. In which state would you find a
giant monument depicting faces
carved into the side of a hill?
11. In which state is
Harvard University?
12. Which state is known as
“the Garden State”?
13. The Green Bay Packers
football team is based in
which state?
14. How many states start with
the letter “W”?
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QUIZ 174
15. Yellowstone National Park is located
primarily in which state?
16. How many states do not border
any other state?
17. Mount McKinley is the highest
peak in the US. In which state
will you find it?
18. What is the state capital
of California?
19. Niagara Falls straddles Ontario,
Canada, and which state?
20. The Mississippi River drains into
the Gulf of Mexico in which state?
21. Jousting is the official state sport of
Maryland. True or False?
22. Sioux Falls is in which state?
23. How many states start with the
word “New”?
24. The “Hollywood” sign is located
on which mountain?
25. Which state has the
GEOGRAPHY
longest coastline?
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Native Tongues

1. Hakuna matata (no worries) is from
which language?
2. Kalaallit Nunaat is the name of
which country in the native language
of its indigenous population?
3. Which term refers to a language used
by people whose native languages
are mutually incomprehensible?
4. The constructed international
auxiliary language Esperanto is the
first language of business magnate
George Soros. True or False?
5. Cleopatra was the famous final
pharaoh of ancient Egypt. But what
was her native language?
6. What was the native language of
Christopher Columbus?
7. Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba are
recognized national languages
in which country?
8. What was Queen singer Freddie
Mercury’s native language?
13. Along with French and German,
one of the official languages in
Luxembourg is Luxembourgish.
True or False?
14. Which is NOT an official
language of Switzerland:
English, German, Italian?
15. Napoleon Bonaparte’s native
language was what?
16. There is a colony of Welsh speakers
where in South America?
17. Which beat generation writer spoke
in a French-Canadian dialect (Joual)
until he was six years old?
18. What was the native language
of the Aztecs?
19. In which country will you
find native speakers of Maasai
and Gikuyu?
20. What is the official language
of Suriname?

9. Tagalog is spoken as a first language

GEOGRAPHY

by one-third of the population (and

as a second language by most of the
rest) in which country?

10. Roughly how many indigenous

languages are there in the largest
oceanic country?

11. Author Roald Dahl’s parents were

native speakers of which language?

12. Aotearoa is the name of which

country in the native language of
its indigenous population?

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The Mediterranean

1. In which modern country on 13. In which country is Alicante, on

the Mediterranean Coast lay the
ancient city of Carthage?
2. “Mediterranean” comes
from the Latin word
mediterraneus meaning what?
3. Which ancient civilization had
a wide network of trading routes
around the Mediterranean?
the Costa Blanca?
14. Which is the largest city by the
Mediterranean Sea?
15. How many modern states have a
Mediterranean coastline?
16. The Mediterranean island of Rhodes
belongs to which country?

4. Which strait connects 17. The Suez Canal connects the

the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean to which sea?
Atlantic Ocean?
18. The ancient Romans called the
5. Which is the largest island in Mediterranean Mare Nostrum.
the Mediterranean? What does it translate to in English?

6. Where is the historic city
of Dubrovnik?
7. Is coconut a typical product of the
Mediterranean region?
8. Which Italian city is often flooded
annually by Mediterranean water?
19. The African country Niger has a
coastline by the Mediterranean Sea.
True or False?
20. Kefalonia is part of which
Mediterranean country?

9. In total, the Mediterranean

coastline extends for 29,000 miles
GEOGRAPHY

(46,000 km). True or False?

10. Approximately how many merchant

shipping vessels travel the
Mediterranean waters every year?

11. Mediterranean fish stocks have

declined by about a third in the
past 50 years. True or False?

12. Rising sea levels as a result of

climate change are soon expected
to submerge parts of the
Mediterranean island of Malta.
True or False?

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What a Wonderful World
1. The word “geology” is based on the
Greek for “earth-talk.” True or False?
2. How old are the Alps?
3. A geologist could tell the age of a
rock by measuring the amount of
radioactive minerals it contains.
True or False?
4. Earth’s crust is divided into
huge plates that float on the hot
rock below. When these plates
move, what can happen:
earthquakes, volcanoes, or both?
5. Earth is made partly of metal.
True or False?
6. What term is used to describe
a river of ice flowing from
snowcapped mountains?
7. What is strange about the
metal mercury?
8. Both copper and tin are quite soft,
but if they are mixed together, they
make an alloy that is much harder
than either. What is it called?
GEOGRAPHY
9. Most islands in the oceans are, or
were, volcanoes that have erupted
from the ocean floor. True or False?
10. Most mountains are formed by the
great plates of Earth’s crust being
pushed together. True or False?
11. You can find fossils of shellfish on
mountains at least 3 miles (5 km)
above sea level. True or False?
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12. The Grand Canyon was made by
rocks being pushed upward at the
same time as what was cutting a
path through the rock?
13. The walls of the Grand Canyon are
made up of layers of rock, with the
youngest at the bottom and the
oldest at the top. True or False?
14. Water covers how much of
our planet?
15. Which desert in South America
has had no rain at all since
records began?
16. Most of Earth’s water is in
the oceans and therefore salty.
Approximately how much of
Earth’s water is “fresh” and
not salty?
17. How are most caves formed
by water?
18. Water from the ceiling of a cave
interacts with the air, which
crystallizes the dissolved calcite
to form hanging… what?
19. What was the length of the
biggest-known free-hanging
stalactite found in Mexico?
20. Slate is a metamorphic rock.
True or False?
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More Volcanoes

1. What does the Greek word 15. How many people died in the
“tectonic” mean? 1883 eruption of Krakatoa?

2. How tall is the Hawaiian 16. A volcano is classified as

volcano Mauna Kea?
3. What is the highest temperature
of the rivers of lava that flow
from Hawaiian volcanoes?
4. The Olympus Mons on Mars
is the largest-known volcano
in the solar system. True or False?
5. Pahoehoe is a type of what?
6. Historically, which country has
the most active volcanoes?
20. In what country is the
7. How many estimated active
volcanoes are there on Earth?
dormant when it hasn’t
erupted for how many years?
17. The word “volcano” comes from
the name of the Roman god of fire,
called what?
18. The North American Plate
has a boundary with the
Eurasian Plate. True or False?
19. In which state is
Mount St. Helens?
Pinatubo volcano located?

8. What is “lahar”?

9. What is the largest volcano

on Earth?

10. In which year was the great

eruption of Mount Vesuvius?

11. Is Mount Kilimanjaro a dormant

GEOGRAPHY

or active volcano?

12. For roughly how many

years has Mount Etna been
constantly erupting?

13. Which Icelandic stratovolcano is

nicknamed the “Gateway to Hell”?

14. The Ring of Fire has 452

volcanoes. True or False?

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Human Geography

1. Which country’s overseas 11. Which French town is a popular

territories include New destination for Christians
Caledonia and Réunion? seeking cures?

2. Where is the largest Buddha
statue in the world, and what
is its name?
3. In 2010, Japan had the longest life
expectancy in the world. How old
could most Japanese people expect
to live to?
4. Throughout the 20th century,
which of the following countries
had the largest population: Brazil,
China, Russia?
5. Which of the following countries has
the smallest population: Denmark,
Bulgaria, Luxembourg?
12. In which city is the Blue Mosque?
13. Which is the European Union’s
biggest city by population?
14. In 2011, what was the most common
male first name in the world?
15. What was Europe’s newest country
when it was created in 2008?
16. Which of the following countries
has a population of more than one
billion: Brazil, Russia, India?
17. In which city is the landmark
the Wailing Wall?

6. In 2020, which city was the
world’s largest, with a population
of 37 million people?
7. In 2010, which of the
following countries had the
shortest life expectancy:
Zimbabwe, India, Indonesia?
GEOGRAPHY
18. Which is the smallest country
in the world by area?
19. Which of the following European
countries had, as of 2020, a
population of more than one million:
Iceland, Luxembourg,
North Macedonia?

8. At the millennium, which country 20. Approximately what percentage

had the greatest percentage of its of the world’s population lives
people living in urban areas: in urban areas?
Germany, Argentina, Belgium?

9. At the Millennium, which

country had the largest percentage
of its people living in rural
regions: Papua New Guinea,
Mongolia, Canada?

10. Where is the final destination

for Muslims taking part in the
Hajj pilgrimage?

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Violent Earth
1. What is the name for material
thrown out by a volcano?
2. The Soufrière Hills volcano has
forced the evacuation of the majority
of which Caribbean island?
3. Which name is given to tropical
storms that affect the coast
of Japan?
4. Which Icelandic volcano
erupted in 1963 and created
a new island?
5. What is the Corryvreckan, which
lies off the coast of Jura in the west
of Scotland?
6. Which storm devastated New
Orleans and other Gulf Coast
areas in 2005?
7. What job do “pisteurs” have in
the Swiss Alps?
8. The name of which natural hazard
comes from a Japanese word
meaning “harbor wave”?
9. If you are going whitewater rafting
and your route is given a rating of
Class 1, it is what?
10. Which natural hazard is measured
on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with
5 being the highest value?
11. In which part of Earth’s atmosphere
is the ozone layer?
12. The Ring of Doom refers to the
line of volcanoes that runs around
the coastline of the Pacific Ocean.
True or False?
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QUIZ 180
13. Which of these volcanoes is NOT
on the Italian island of Sicily:
Stromboli, Vesuvius, Etna?
14. Crater Lake in the United States
has formed inside an extinct
volcano. Which of these records
does it hold for the US: largest,
saltiest, deepest?
15. The Netherlands has been flooded
many times. What is the name of the
flat, reclaimed areas of land that
make up much of the country?
16. What do scientists believe flattened
millions of trees at Tunguska in
Siberia on June 30, 1908?
17. The Great Alaska Earthquake
that struck the Anchorage area and
registered 8.6 on the Richter Scale
took place in which year?
18. Which of these people did NOT
give his name to a scale for
measuring earthquakes:Wegener,
Richter, Gutenberg?
19. “Duck, cover, and hold on” is
GEOGRAPHY
advice given to people on how to
react when which kind of natural
phenomenon occurs?
20. Which flood-prone Asian country
is 80% flood plain, with almost
of all it fewer than 16 ft (5 m) above
sea level?
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 CHAPTER 5

MUSIC

Cast your mind back to

Christmas songs, boy bands,
and Top 10 girl singers.
From classical music and
Christmas carols to reggae, rap,
heavy metal, and musicals,
these questions will challenge
your musical memories.
MUSIC

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Musical Instruments

1. Where does the percussion section 15. What is a “balalaika”?

sit in the orchestra?
2. What is a “tabla”?
3. The Polynesian nose flute is
played using the nose because it
is believed that breath from the
nose is purer than that from
the mouth. True or False?
4. Fender Stratocaster is a make
of what?
16. Which harplike instrument is
associated with the ancient
Romans and Greeks?
17. How many strings does a
violin have?
18. Piccolos belong in the brass section
of the orchestra. True or False?
19. The sousaphone is a type of what?

5. What is the national musical
instrument of Scotland?
6. Unlike many other wind
instruments, the bassoon has a
double reed rather than a single
reed. True or False?
7. The pipa is a four-stringed, pear-
shaped instrument that looks like
a lute. Where does it come from?
8. How is a xylophone played?
9. Which class of musical instruments
does a theremin belong to?
10. There are four pedals on a standard
piano. True or False?
20. How many notes are there in an
octave on a keyboard (white and
black keys)?
21. What is a “sackbut”?
22. “Timpani” is the Italian word for
drums. True or False?
23. A modern orchestra is usually
made up of strings, woodwind,
percussion, and what?
24. What is another name for a
mouth organ?
25. Which musical instrument is the
national symbol of Ireland?

11. Why are mutes added to a

trumpet’s bell?

12. In which country might you find

an alpenhorn?

13. What is a “high hat”?

14. What is one of the main

MUSIC

differences between a violin

and a viola?

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 QUIZ 182
World Music
1. What is the general term
used to describe African
popular music from the
mid-20th century onward?
2. The bagpipes were first made
by herdsmen using a goat or
sheepskin for the bag and a couple
of reed pipes. True or False?
3. Which country has won the
Eurovision Song Contest the
most times?
4. Ravi Shankar received
international fame as a sitar
player when who became his
student in 1966?
5. In which country was Johann
Sebastian Bach born?
6. What sort of wood is used
to make a didgeridoo?
7. With which type of music
is Bob Marley most
commonly associated?
8. The traditional Chinese instrument
known as an “erhu” has only two
strings. True or False?
9. Before the 20th century, most
music in Japan was played by
blind musicians who were
monks. True or False?
10. What traditional music influenced
the development of blues, gospel,
and jazz?
11. The sitar, tabla, and tampura
MUSIC
are a group of instruments that
originated from which country?
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EASY
12. Which percussion instrument
is often heard in Latin
American music?
13. The gum-leaf is a very simple
instrument made from a single
eucalyptus leaf. True or False?
14. Which type of music originated
in the Bronx area of New York
City in the 1970s?
15. The Japanese koto is said
to resemble the shape of
which creature?
16. Which percussion instrument is
used mainly in Spain but is also
heard in Latin American music?
17. To which class of instrument
does a pan flute, also known
as panpipes, belong?
18. The world’s shortest opera is
Darius Milhaud’s The Deliverance
of Theseus, which is only 7 minutes
and 27 seconds long. True or False?
19. American composer John Cage
composed a work entitled 4’ 33”,
which consists of four minutes
and thirty-three seconds of silence.
True or False?
20. Which huge music festival
takes place in fields in
Somerset, England?
 EASY
Rockin’ All Over the USA
1. Pioneering grunge label Sub
Pop was founded in which
American city?
2. Which artist pioneered the
Minneapolis sound?
3. Southern rock band Lynyrd
Skynyrd wrote which song in
an angry response to a Neil
Young tune?
4. Chuck Berry wrote “Back in
the USA” after a trip to the
former USSR. True or False?
5. Whose signature tune is “Midnight
Train to Georgia”?
6. Which city is known as the capital
of country music?
7. Where was folk-rock legend
Bob Dylan born?
8. Which popular song, written
for singer Dionne Warwick by
Burt Bacharach, is about a
Californian city?
9. The classic folk song “City of
New Orleans” tells the tale
of a journey on which form
of transportation?
10. Detroit is one of the most
influential cities in American
music. Which famous record
company was founded there?
11. From which state did the
band R.E.M. originate?
12. What style of music is Chicago
known for?
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QUIZ 183
13. What was the Philly Sound of
the late 1960s and 1970s?
14. Where did the Beatles perform their
final American concert?
15. “American Woman” was a hit for
Canadian band the Guess Who.
True or False?
16. Who wrote the classic country-rock
song whose protagonist was standing
on a corner in Winslow, Arizona?
17. In 1966, folk duo Simon and
Garfunkel recorded a song
referencing a particular bridge.
What was the song called?
18. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is
located in which American city?
19. Bryan Ferry, Bing Crosby, Tom
Petty, and Frank Zappa all sang
about a valley in California.
What is its name?
20. The raucous 1960s garage-rock
classic “Dirty Water” by the
Standells mentions several places
of local interest in which city?
MUSIC
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 QUIZ 184
Christmas Songs
1. “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” is
a song written by which ex-Beatle
and his wife?
2. This Canadian singer released a
whole album of Christmas songs
in 2011 called Christmas. What
is his name?
3. Which Christmas song recorded
by Bing Crosby in 1942 is the
best-selling single of all time?
4. In this Christmas carol, the narrator
sings about the many presents their
true love bestowed upon them during
the holiday season. What is its name?
5. In 2011, Justin Bieber released a
Christmas song about standing
under what type of foliage waiting
to be embraced?
6. Sung by Judy Garland, the song
“Have Yourself a Merry Little
Christmas” featured in what
1940s movie?
7. Which R&B singer released her
song “All I Want for Christmas is
You” in 1994?
8. Name the Christmas carol based on
the story of a benevolent Bohemian
king who became a saint after this
death in the 10th century.
9. Elvis Presley had a Christmas
steeped in what color following a
bout of unrequited love?
10. The Singing Cowboy had a US No. 1
hit with “Rudolph the Red-Nosed
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Reindeer” in 1949. What name is
he better known by?
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11. In this holiday tune, Brenda Lee
sings about doing what around a
Christmas tree?
12. Which New Jersey rocker is known
for his version of “Santa Claus Is
Coming to Town”?
13. This classic song from “A Charlie
Brown Christmas” features solo
piano. What is its name?
14. Which Canadian songstress covered
the classical Christmas carol “O
Holy Night” in 1997?
15. Josh Groban included his version of
“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”
on which six-time platinum album
from 2007?
16. Which Christmas song performed
by Eartha Kitt was considered
controversial and banned in some
states when it was first released
in 1953?
17. Which 1980s duo had an
enduring megahit with the song
“Last Christmas”?
18. “Do You Want to Build a
Snowman?” is a song from which
animated movie set in a frosty world?
19. “Feliz Navidad” was written and
performed by singer and songwriter
José Feliciano. The lyrics include
words in both Spanish and English.
True or False?
20. “Baby, it’s Cold Outside”—covered
in 2018 by John Legend and Kelly
Clarkson—first debuted in a 1940s
movie. True or False?
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Christmas Carols

1. In which country were the original 17. In the carol “We Three Kings,”
words to “Silent Night” written? which gift has a “bitter perfume”?

2. When Good King Wenceslas looked 18. “It came upon the midnight clear.”
out, how was the snow? What was “it”?

3. What do the “Herald Angels” sing?
4. Who is thought to have
introduced Christmas carols
into church services?
19. How many ships came sailing in
on Christmas Day?
20. What did the little lamb say to the
shepherd boy?

5. What is Adeste Fidelis Latin for?
6. What stood in Royal David’s city?
7. Which famous poet wrote the
words that are now used for the
carol “In the Bleak Midwinter”?
8. What are the halls “decked” with?
21. In “Ding Dong Merrily on High,”
where are the bells ringing?
22. Who was first to hear the
First Noel?
23. Which carol includes the line:
“Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled”?

9. Finish the next line in this popular 24. While shepherds watched their
carol: “Good tidings we bring…” flocks, who came down?

10. What is a “Tannenbaum”? 25. In the carol “I Saw Three Ships,”

where did the ships sail into?
11. What was the original name of
the Christmas song “Jingle Bells”?

12. Of all the trees that are in the wood,

what does the holly bear?

13. What gift was given on the

eighth day of Christmas?

14. Who composed “A Ceremony

of Carols”?

15. Which carol does the following line

come from: “The cattle are lowing,
the baby awakes…”?

16. In the “Carol of the Bells,” what

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do the bells seem to say?

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Bach Soon, Gone Chopin

1. Chopin is most famous for 14. In Prokofiev’s musical story Peter

writing music for which and the Wolf, which instrument
musical instrument? denotes Peter?

2. A standard musical staff is made 15. How many strings are there on
up of how many lines? a traditional classical guitar?

3. Which “magical” musical 16. Forte means “play loudly.” What

instrument is featured in an
opera by Mozart?
4. In the Carnival of Animals by
Saint-Saëns, which musical
instruments represent the elephant?
5. Which section of a symphony
orchestra traditionally leads the
rest of the orchestra?
6. J. S. Bach was a famous composer
during which period of music?
20. In musical theory, a semibreve
7. The word pizzicato tells the
musician to what?
signals a musician to play quietly?
17. Which male “voice” sings at the
highest pitch?
18. Vanessa Mae is a famous British
musician. Which instrument does
she play?
19. Mozart was an early starter.
How old was he when he wrote
his first symphony?
is worth what?

8. Who wrote the opera Porgy

and Bess?

9. Which instrument usually

provides the note to tune the
rest of the orchestra?

10. Which Italian composer wrote the

concerto Le quattro stagioni?

11. In Gustav Holst’s epic orchestral

suite The Planets, which planet is
the “bringer of peace”?

12. How long was American composer

John Cage’s infamous entirely
silent piece?

13. What does the clef indicate on

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a musical staff?

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Reggae

1. Which song was the first No. 1
reggae hit in the UK?
2. Who wrote the Bob Marley hit
“No Woman, No Cry”?
3. “Rivers of Babylon,” which
was a hit for Boney M, was
previously recorded by whom?
4. The Clash once covered
“Police and Thieves,” but
who wrote it?
16. Where did Desmond Dekker die?
17. Who was known as the
“Cooler Ruler”?
18. The album Jah Son of Africa made
which artist a hit in the UK
in the 1970s?
19. What was his nickname?
20. What was Bob Marley’s
middle name?

5. Who announced “You Can Get It 21. Where does the word “reggae”
If You Really Want”? come from?

6. Which instrument is associated 22. Which group had a No. 1 hit with
with Augustus Pablo? the reggae song “The Tide Is High”?

7. What was a 1964 hit for 23. What is the real name of
the Wailers? Beenie Man?

8. Who first sang “A Message to 24. Who is best known for the hit record
You Rudy”? “Night Nurse”?

9. Who sang “007 Shanty Town”? 25. Who is Ziggy Marley?

10. Who was born Osbourne Ruddock?

11. Who wrote “54–46”?

12. Which 1969 song by Toots and

the Maytals used the word “reggae”
for the first time?

13. Which reggae band do Sly and

Robbie belong to?

14. What was Burning Spear’s

real name?

15. Who has used the pseudonyms

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“Pipecock Jackxon” and the

“Upsetter,” among others?

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1980s Music

1. Which band was “Too shy-shy” 16. Which band told its listeners
in 1983? to “Relax”?

2. Which singer dreamed of an 17. Which pop act got caught

“Uptown Girl”? lip-syncing?

3. Which band reinvented rock with 18. Who broke chart records with
its 1987 Appetite for Destruction? “The Final Countdown”?

4. Who was “Like a Virgin” in 1984?
5. Which band led the mainstream
Goth movement?
6. Which comic book did the
Thompson Twins get their
name from?
7. What is Bruce Springsteen
also known as?
8. The Cars sang “Drive” about
losing a girlfriend in a car
accident. True or False?
19. Who raged: “We’re not going to
take it”?
20. Which band was from “A land
down under”?
21. Which hit song by Madness does
this line come from: “Father wears
his Sunday best”?
22. Which rock band released an album
titled Brothers in Arms?
23. Who sang “Islands in the Stream”
with Kenny Rogers?

9. Which rock act did Billy Duffy
play guitar for?
10. Which band felt “Hungry Like
the Wolf” in 1982?
11. Who is the lead singer of the
Pet Shop Boys?
24. Which male singer sang the
line: “How can you just leave
me standing? Alone in a world
that’s so cold (so cold)”?
25. Which American group abbreviated
its name to NKOTB?

12. Which 1960s prog rock band had

a 1980s comeback with “Owner
of a Lonely Heart”?

13. Whose single “Just a Gigolo”

caused this singer’s exit from
Van Halen?

14. Who didn’t “Need Another Hero”?

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15. Which singer created “Footloose”?

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Hip Hop & Rap

1. Which singer is often credited
as being the first to perform a
rap in a number-one hit?
2. Which Memphis rap group won
an Academy Award for “Best
Original Song” in 2006?
3. Which band sang about celebrating
Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday
in Arizona?
15. What was Eazy-E’s real name?
16. Under which stage name does
Donald Glover perform and record?
17. Snoop Dogg was a member of the
Crips gang before becoming one of
Dr. Dre’s proteges. True or False?
18. Which female rapper had a public
feud with Foxy Brown in the 1990s?

4. Who recorded “Rapper’s Delight”? 19. Which was the first American
Latino hip-hop group to have
5. Which 1980s act does the acronym platinum-selling albums?
UTFO stand for?
20. Who broke into the mainstream
6. Which artist performed the charts with “Fight for Your Right”?
song “Hey Ya”?

7. What is the name of 50 Cent’s band?

8. Andre Young is better known as

which rapper?

9. Which rapper is usually seen

wearing a large clock around
his neck?

10. In which song did Eminem say

he was being picked on?

11. Who tells listeners to “Drop It

Like It’s Hot”?

12. What is the title of Jay-Z’s

first album?

13. Chuck D gave Trevor Tahiem

Smith the stage name “Busta
Rhymes”. True or False?

14. Who were the two bands that made

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rap and metal collide with “Bring

the Noise”?

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Famous Musicals
1. Which members of ABBA wrote
the music for Chess?
2. Which musical based on Pygmalion
follows a professor trying to turn a
common flower seller into a lady?
3. Which musical is based on
Romeo and Juliet?
4. Which former movie-turned-
musical is about a town where
dancing was banned?
5. Who wrote the music and lyrics
for Kinky Boots?
6. In which musical does an American
soldier ditch his Asian love for a
fellow countrywoman?
7. On which opera by Puccini is
Miss Saigon based?
8. Which musical set in the Wild
West is about the search for a
famous singer to perform at
a small-town saloon?
9. Which musical is set in a New
York performing-arts school?
10. Which musical that stars fairy-tale
characters such as Cinderella and
Little Red Riding Hood does not
have a happy ending?
11. Which musical features the song
“I’m Flying High Defying Gravity”?
12. Another musical that became
a movie, this story follows a
gambler’s relationship with
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a girl from the Salvation Army.
What is its name?
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13. A French plantation owner and
an American nurse fall in love.
What’s the musical?
14. This animated musical landed Elton
John a host of awards. What is it?
15. Which rock musical is a product
of the hippie era?
16. Which musical made into a movie
is set in early Nazi Berlin?
17. Which musical features the
Von Trapp family?
18. In which musical do characters
known as the Pink Ladies appear?
19. What “Age” do the characters
of Hair live in?
20. Which musical features characters
named Skimbleshanks, Macavity,
and Grizabella, among many others?
21. Which is the longest-running
musical in the world?
22. Which musical set in the 1920s
features two murderesses in jail
awaiting trial?
23. Which musical has the
characters Caractacus Potts
and the “Child Catcher”?
24. “No Place Like London” and “The
Worst Pies in London” are songs
from which musical?
25. The musical Hamilton features
R&B, pop, soul, and hip-hop as well
as traditional show tunes.
True or False?
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2000s Music

1. Who got Back to Basics in 2006?
2. Who was the drummer for the
White Stripes?
3. What year was the eponymous
Gorillaz album released?
4. Which former Blur member did
Gorillaz feature?
15. The best-selling UK album of the
2000s was James Blunt’s Back to
Bedlam. True or False?
16. In which year did Britney Spears
release her third No. 1 hit “3”?
17. Which artist took the decade
by storm with her 2008 album
The Fame?

5. Robin Pecknold is the singer 18. Who recorded her first solo album
in which band? Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004?

6. Beyoncé was a member of which 19. Thom Yorke is the lead singer of
girl group before going solo? which English band formed in 1985?

7. In which year was Rihanna’s debut 20. Which Kid Rock album went
album Music of the Sun released? platinum in 2003?

8. In which country was

Rihanna born?

9. In 2006, MTV included Ghostface

Killah in its list of “The Greatest
MCs of All Time.” True or False?

10. Which singer won five

Grammy Awards for her
Back to Black album?

11. Franz Ferdinand hail from

which UK city?

12. Which band’s debut album

became the fastest-selling in
British music history?

13. Lauryn Hill was one of the

best-selling hip-hop artists
of the 1990s. True or False?

14. will.i.am, Taboo, and apl.de.ap

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are members of which chart-

topping group?

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Very Heavy Metal

1. Released on Friday, February 13, 13. Which heavy-metal singer

1970, which album is considered popularized the “evil horns”
the first true heavy-metal record? hand gesture?

2. Which of these bands was NOT 14. Angus Young has appeared on
part of the New Wave of British stage for several decades dressed
heavy metal: Def Leppard, Iron in a schoolboy uniform. To which
Maiden, Flower Fairies? band does he belong?

3. Three Van Halens featured in the 15. “Ace of Spades” is a song by which
band’s original lineup. True or False? British band?

4. Which band was in the Big Four 16. Heavy-metal band Megadeth has
of thrash metal: Clunk, Tin Gods, sold more albums than rival band
or Anvil? Metallica. True or False?

5. Who was the first original member 17. Iron Maiden’s mascot is called
to leave Guns N’ Roses in 1990? Eddie the what?

6. New York is the spiritual home
of grunge. True or False?
7. Bass player Lemmy was
most associated with which
heavy-metal act?
8. In which decade did heavy metal
become the most listened to music
in the world?
9. Which member of Judas Priest
is credited with introducing
studs, chains, and leather to
the heavy-metal wardrobe?
18. Which heavy-metal band’s stage
show features fire breathing, blood
spitting, smoking guitars, shooting
rockets, and levitating drum kits?
19. Which song is sometimes described
as the first heavy-metal song?
20. What did Def Leppard
drummer Rick Allen lose
in a 1984 car accident?

10. Which drummer brought

double-kick drum pedals into
the heavy-metal mainstream?

11. Which heavy-metal record

became the best-selling debut
album of all time?

12. What is the real first name of

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“Ozzy” Osbourne?

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Great American Rock ‘n’ Rollers

1. Which American rock and roller 14. Singer Roy Orbison was also known
wrote “Peggy Sue”? as “The Big O.” True or False?

2. Who was the rock-and-roll subject
of La Bamba?
3. Who was Richard Wayne Penniman
better known as?
15. In which year did Elvis Presley die?
16. Which singer is sometimes
called “rock and roll’s first
great wild man”?

4. Which member of the Beach Boys 17. What was Elvis Presley’s first
was not a Wilson brother? hit, released in 1956?

5. Who kicked rockabilly 18. Rock-and-roll singer Ricky Nelson

into the mainstream with said in 2001 that he’d like one more
“Be-Bop-a-Lula”? number-one hit. True or False?

6. Which teen rock and roller was 19. In which state was rock-and-roll
also a TV idol? singer Buddy Holly born?

7. Which rock and roller was known 20. Which rock-and-roll band sang
as “Mr. Excitement”? “Rock around the Clock”?

8. How did the Big Bopper and Ritchie

Valens die in 1959?

9. Which Eddie Cochran

song includes these lines: “I’d like
to help you son, but you’re too
young to vote”?

10. What was Bobby Darin’s first

million-selling single, released
in 1958?

11. Chuck Berry was credited with

developing rock and roll from
rhythm and blues. In which year
did he release “Johnny B. Goode”?

12. What was rock-and-roll singer Carl

Perkins’s best-known song?

13. Which rock-and-roll band was

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responsible for the surf anthem

“Wipe Out”?

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Music News Pop Idols
1. Which singer, who hit the big time
in 2005 with the single “You’re
Beautiful,” used to be an officer
in the British Army?
2. Which pop superstar shocked the
world in 2010 by turning up to an
awards ceremony dressed in an
outfit made entirely of raw meat?
3. Beyoncé is one of the world’s most
famous female pop stars. Her rapper
husband is equally famous, but
who is he?
4. Every year since 2005, the UK X
Factor show winners have gone on
to take the Christmas No. 1, except
in 2009. Which band took the spot?
5. Which superstar “Man in the
Mirror” died in 2009?
6. Which singing Ohio schoolkids
hold the record for having the
most singles in a single year?
7. Which Black Eyed Peas song was
pronounced by Apple in 2010 to
be the biggest-selling iTunes
download of all time?
8. Who became only the third British
female to have a debut No. 1 single
in America with the song “Bleeding
Love” in 2007?
9. Which popular nineties boy
band broke up but got back
together in 2005?
10. What was the name of the band
formed from the five winners
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of the original TV talent show
Popstars in 2001?
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11. Who sang alongside Jay-Z about
New York in the massive hit 2009
single “Empire State of Mind”?
12. Which former N’Sync member
found international success as a
solo artist and appeared in the film
The Social Network in 2010?
13. From which country do the
members of the band Westlife
come from?
14. Which TV show featuring singing
and dancing teenagers was not
made by Disney?
15. Which rock band stormed to the
top of the UK charts with its debut
single “I Bet You Look Good on
the Dance Floor” in 2006?
16. After leaving Destiny’s Child,
Beyoncé was propelled to global
superstar status with which huge
hit single in 2001?
17. Who was the best-selling female
artist of the first decade of the
21st century?
18. Justin Bieber was discovered
on YouTube. True or False?
19. Whose debut album was called
Music of the Sun?
20. Which US TV talent show debuted
in June 2002?
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Famous Musicians

1. Which band’s songs were
used in the films Mamma Mia
and Mamma Mia! Here We
Go Again?
2. Bob Marley was the lead singer
with whom?
3. The Four Seasons was written by
which classical composer?
4. Plácido Domingo and Luciano
Pavarotti were two of the Three
Tenors. Who was the third?
5. Dean Martin was part of which
group of actors?
6. As well as being a prolific
composer, Bach also fathered
20 children. True or False?
7. What is Lady Gaga’s real name?
15. With which musical genre is Duke
Ellington associated?
16. Nicole Sherzinger is famous for
being in which band?
17. Madonna performed at the London
Live Earth concert. In which year
did this take place?
18. Who was the lead singer of
Led Zeppelin?
19. “White Christmas” was a 1942 hit
for which artist?
20. Which state was the title of a Bee
Gees No. 1 song?
21. Who composed the opera Carmen?
22. Chrissie Hynde is the lead singer of
which group?

8. What was Mozart’s middle name?
9. With which form of dancing is
Tchaikovsky associated?
10. Shirley Manson is the lead singer
of which group?
11. The electronic music band
Kraftwerk is from Sweden.
True or False?
23. Which 1990s singer had a
comeback in 2016 with
“When the Bassline Drops”?
24. Who released the album Fever
in 2001?
25. Which city’s streets did Bruce
Springsteen sing about in 1994?

12. The musician John Williams is

associated with which instrument?

13. Who was Adolf Hitler’s

favorite composer?

14. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts

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Club Band was the Beatles’

first album. True or False?

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Classical Music

1. In which country was the first 14. Concerts gained popularity in

tuba made? England during which war?

2. Guillaume de Machaut, a 15. Music structured according to

14th-century priest, wrote many the “Sonata Structure” begins
songs based on what theme? with what?

3. In which year did Wolfgang
Mozart die?
4. In Vincenzo Bellini’s I Capuleti e i
Montecchi, Romeo’s part is written
for a female voice. True or False?
16. In which year did the ballet of
Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake have
its premiere?
17. The overture is which part of
a musical movement?

5. Who composed Ein 18. Allegretto means “leisurely”

Deutsches Requiem? in Italian. True or False?

6. How many strings does a modern 19. Opera was first performed in
orchestral harp have? which period?

7. A conductor’s only job is to keep 20. A lute is an early version of

time. True or False? which instrument?

8. What did George Frederic

Handel study before he
devoted himself to music?

9. Gaps between notes are

known as what?

10. How many movements does

a nocturne piece have?

11. What physical ailment

severely afflicted Johann
Sebastian Bach toward the
end of his life?

12. Twelve of Franz Joseph Haydn’s

later symphonies are known as
the what?

13. The music of Mark-Anthony

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Turnage is influenced by
which musical style?

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Motown
1. Who founded Motown Records
in 1959?
2. Which Motown singer married
Berry Gordy’s sister, Anna?
3. Which was the first act signed
to Motown, which later became
the Miracles?
4. How many top-ten hits did Motown
have between 1961 and 1971?
5. What age was “Little” Stevie
Wonder when he signed to Motown?
6. Stevie Wonder only ever recorded
on one label. True or False?
7. What was the name of Michael
Jackson and his band of brothers?
8. How old was Michael when he and
his brothers signed with Motown?
9. Who backed Diana Ross?
10. What was the name of Gladys
Knight’s backing group?
11. Which influential album did Marvin
Gaye record for Motown in 1971?
12. In which year did Motown move all
of its operations from Detroit to
Los Angeles?
13. Why did Motown move its location?
14. What was a hit for the Commodores
in 1974?
15. Which Commodore branched out on
his own and hit number one in 1982
with “Truly”?
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16. Who was the top hit-making
producer for Motown in the late
1960s and early 1970s?
17. Boyz II Men was one of Motown’s
most successful acts of the 1990s.
True or False?
18. What did Berry Gordy originally
do to Marvin Gaye’s recording of
“I Heard It through the Grapevine”?
19. In which year did Berry Gordy
sell his interest in Motown
Records to MCA?
20. How much did Berry Gordy
sell Motown Records for?
21. In which city was Motown founded?
22. Which Motown song was the first
to reach No. 1 on the charts?
23. Stevland Hardaway Morris is which
famous Motown singer’s real name?
24. Smokey Robinson was a member
of which Motown band?
25. Which was the first female group
to sign for Motown records?
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Famous Folk
1. Which 1960s folk singer once
said: “I’ve never written a political
song. Songs can’t save the world.
I’ve gone through all that.”
2. Who said in 2010 that Bob Dylan
was a “fake” and a “plagiarist”?
3. Certain types of folk music are
also called “world music.” True
or False?
4. Which folk trio had success with
a cover version of Bob Dylan’s
song “Blowin’ in the Wind”?
5. From where does Cajun
music originate?
6. Which banjo-playing singer was
investigated by the House Un-
American Activities Committee?
7. What is the name of the
instrument commonly known
as the “hubcap guitar”?
8. An autoharp is often used by
folk musicians from the Appalachia
region. How many strings does
it have?
9. What is the name of the
instrument that Beatle George
Harrison was taught to play by
Ravi Shankar?
10. On which Fairport Convention
album is the track “Tam Lin”?
11. In which year was the most famous
Newport Folk Festival held?
12. Who sang: “This land is your land,
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this land is my land…”?
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13. Which group epitomized the folk
rock sound with its version of
“Mr. Tambourine Man”?
14. There is no copyright on the
majority of traditional folk songs.
True or False?
15. What did Bob Dylan do that
created a storm of controversy at
the 1965 Newport Folk Festival?
16. Which duo’s music is featured in
the 1967 movie The Graduate?
17. Which folk singer was later
celebrated as “the Grandfather
of Grunge”?
18. Which song includes this line:
“Well I feel so broke up, I wanna
go home”?
19. Before he recorded his first
album, what career did Leonard
Cohen have?
20. Who wrote the influential song
“Woodstock,” although she was
persuaded not to attend the
event personally?
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The Color of Music
1. What kind of big taxi did Joni
Mitchell once sing about?
2. What was Prince’s ode to
colorful weather?
3. The seminal album from jazz legend
Miles Davis is a Kind of what?
4. Following the death of lead singer
Bon Scott, AC/DC soon announced
they were Back in what?
5. The challenging 1968 Beatles
double album with no name is
commonly known as what?
6. For chefs, its varieties are Turbinado,
Muscovado, and Demerara. For the
Rolling Stones, it was simply what?
7. Featuring Northumbrian
smallpipes, this song is Sting’s
1993 “Fields of” what?
8. The band is Booker T. & the
M.G.’s, and the colorful hit they
cooked up was what?
9. Dancing cheek to cheek with
Chris de Burgh in 1986 was his
“Lady in” what?
10. The 1980s song “Pretty in Pink”
was so popular that a movie was
named after it. Which band wrote it?
11. With shades of punk and ska, what
color were Sublime’s “Begonias”?
12. Where was Linda Ronstadt hoping
to go back to?
13. Who sang about a “Little
Red Corvette”?
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14. “Strawberry Blonde” is a tune by
English Indie outfit the Subways.
True or False?
15. Country boy John Conlee scored
his first chart success in 1978
with what?
16. “Touch of Grey” was the most
commercially successful hit for
these epic aging 1960s rockers.
Who were they?
17. A sentiment shared by workers of
the world, what color was New
Order’s “Monday”?
18. Which multi-colored effort was
created by the Who?
19. Which Van Morrison song includes
these lyrics: “Hey, where did we go,
days when the rain came”?
20. Maxwell is a Beatles character with
a lethal hammer. What color is it?
21. What color was the signal ribbon
that Tony Orlando and Dawn were
hoping to see?
22. What color was the Manalishi with
the two-prong crown that creeps
around Fleetwood Mac?
23. Which shoes did the angels want to
wear, according to Elvis Costello?
24. Who was known as “the Man
in Black”?
25. Texas born and bred, Kelly
Clarkson is well-known for
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watching from what?
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Great Opera

1. Which Verdi opera is set in Egypt?
2. Which operatic tenor had great
commercial success with his
recording of an aria from Turandot?
3. What famous sacred song did
Charles Gounod compose?
4. Which tear-jerker features the
characters Rodolfo, Musetta,
Marcello, and Mimi?
5. Who composed The Pearl Fishers?
6. Which opera is based on a novel
by Alexandre Dumas?
7. Which opera by Puccini includes
torture, murder, and suicide?
8. Who created The Barber of Seville?
9. The composer responsible for
The Marriage of Figaro was?
15. Which opera features a US military
officer and his Japanese bride?
16. Which opera was based on a
Greek legend and had its first
performance in 1762?
17. Which famous composer wrote
only one opera?
18. Which opera by Richard Wagner
was inspired by a stormy sea
crossing he made?
19. Borodin spent nearly 20 years
working on his opera Prince Igor
but died before he completed it.
True or False?
20. Which opera was based on a play
by Oscar Wilde, which was written
in French and based on a story
from the Bible?

10. Which British composer wrote

operas based on works by
Shakespeare and Herman Melville?

11. In which opera did soprano Kiri te

Kanawa give her final performance
before retiring?

12. Which gypsy goes off with a

bullfighter and suffers a tragic end?

13. Who wrote the music for

Don Giovanni?

14. In which opera does a henchman

lose his daughter while plotting the
downfall of his master?
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Famous Drummers

1. Foo Fighters frontman Dave
Grohl used to play the drums in
Nirvana, but who is the current
Foo Fighters drummer?
2. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was
one of the band’s original members.
True or False?
3. Neil Peart is the drummer for
prog rockers Rush. What is his
other role with the band?
4. When did Chad Smith join
the Red Hot Chili Peppers as
their drummer?
5. After Cream disbanded, drummer
Ginger Baker joined Blind
Faith with which other former
Cream member?
12. Who was the drummer for Iron
Maiden in 1984?
13. As well as being a singer, Karen
Carpenter was also an accomplished
drummer. True or False?
14. Rick Allen overcame the complete
amputation of his left arm and
went on playing as the drummer
for which band?
15. Who was the drummer for
the Smiths?
16. How old was Led Zeppelin
drummer John Bonham when
he died?
17. What is English rock drummer
Cozy Powell’s birth name?

6. Which drummer was an extra 18. Who is the drummer for Aerosmith?
in the Beatles film A Hard
Day’s Night? 19. Nick Mason is the only Pink Floyd
member who wasn’t part of the
7. Beatles drummer Ringo Starr original lineup. True or False?
was the original narrator for
which TV show? 20. When was drummer extraordinaire
Bill Bruford born?
8. When Keith Moon died in 1978,
who took over as drummer for
the Who?

9. Why didn’t Velvet Underground

drummer Maureen Tucker play on
their 1970 album, Loaded?

10. Who played the drums on AC/DC’s

album Highway to Hell?

11. “Back in the USSR” had which

Beatle on drums?
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 QUIZ 202
Classical Composers
1. Which country was Frederic
Chopin from?
2. Who wrote The Planets?
3. Who composed the symphonic
suite Scheherazade?
4. At 44 years of age, Beethoven
was almost completely deaf.
True or False?
5. The Lark Ascending was composed
by which British composer?
6. Complete the title of
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns’s
famous work: The Carnival of the…
7. Which composer was the subject of
the film Amadeus?
8. George Frideric Handel wrote
“Music for Royal Birthdays.”
True or False?
9. From which oratorio does the
famous Hallelujah chorus come?
10. Wagner’s wife Cosima was
the daughter of which pianist
and composer?
11. Whose Symphony No. 8
was “Unfinished”?
12. Who wrote the series of piano
pieces called the Gymnopédies?
13. Who wrote Le quattro staggioni?
14. Of which composer was it said, “He
did not write 400 concertos; he wrote
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the same concerto 400 times”?
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15. Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker was
what kind of composition?
16. Which American wrote
Fanfare for the Common Man?
17. Who wrote the opera Dido
and Aeneas?
18. Which one of Puccini’s operas
is based on a play about a geisha
from Nagasaki?
19. Who wrote The Dream
of Gerontius?
20. Richard Strauss was appointed as
a head of music in Nazi Germany.
True or False?
21. Who wrote a symphony in which
the musicians stop playing one by
one until only two are left?
22. Which composer’s pianist wife
became known as the “Queen
of the Piano”?
23. Three of J. S. Bach’s pieces
were sent into space on the
Voyager spacecraft as part of
a representation of human life
in case of extraterrestrial
interception. True or False?
24. Which renowned composer was
also a professor of chemistry?
25. Which composer’s Symphony No. 6
includes the ringing of cowbells
off stage?
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The Rolling Stones

1. In which year did the Rolling
Stones form?
2. Which song begins with
the lyrics: “I was born in
a cross-fire hurricane”?
3. How is the group sometimes
described in fun?
4. Where did Mick Jagger and Keith
Richards first discover they shared
a love for the same music?
5. In total, how many band
members have there been
in the Rolling Stones?
14. The Stones’ second single was
“I Wanna Be Your Man.” Who
wrote it?
15. Which band was Ronnie Wood
with immediately before joining
the Rolling Stones?
16. Who designed the band’s famous
lips-and-tongue logo?
17. The Rolling Stones have had a
total of 21 UK Number-1 singles.
True or False?
18. How many nervous breakdowns
are mentioned in the famous song?

6. Keith Richards has a son named 19. The music video for the track
after which Hollywood actor? “Anybody Seen My Baby?” featured
which Hollywood actress before
7. In which year did the band release she was famous?
the album Exile on Main St.?
20. In which country did the band
8. Who is the oldest member of record some of the tracks for
the band? Exile on Main St.?

9. Which song contains the lyric:

“We’re gonna vent our frustration,
if we don’t we’re gonna blow a
50-amp fuse”?

10. In which year did Brian Jones

die, one of the band’s
founding members?

11. Who came up with the idea for the

album cover of Sticky Fingers?

12. What is Mick Jagger’s full name?

13. The Stones’ first single was

a cover of a Chuck Berry song.
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What was it?

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1950s Music
1. Which 1950s singer claimed to be
“the architect of rock and roll”?
2. Who performed “Rock around the
Clock” in 1955?
3. Which song includes this line:
“When the moon hits your eye
like a big pizza pie”?
4. When did Johnny Cash make his
first recording—“Cry! Cry! Cry!”—
with Sun Records?
5. Which singer had a hit with
“Rockin’ around the Christmas
Tree” in 1958?
6. What was Elvis Presley’s
middle name?
7. Complete the name of this classic
1958 rocker: “Johnny… ”
8. Buddy Holly & the Wickets are
responsible for “Peggy Sue.” True
or False?
9. Who recorded “Wake Up Little
Suzie” in 1957?
10. Who reached No. 2 on the US
charts with “Great Balls of Fire”?
11. What was Julie London’s most
famous song and biggest-selling
single of her career?
12. What was the name of Little
Richard’s first big hit in 1956?
13. Tony Bennett sang “Cold, Cold
Heart” in 1951. True or False?
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14. What year was Cliff Richard’s first
hit “Move It” released?
15. Who was known as “the Girl
with the Giggle in her Voice”?
16. Who found his thrill on
“Blueberry Hill”?
17. The Everly Brothers once sang
“Bye Bye Love.” True or False?
18. Who recorded “Be-Bop-a-Lula”
in 1956?
19. Complete the title of this Ricky
Nelson song: “Poor Little…”
20. Who hit the charts with “That’ll
Be the Day” in 1957?
21. Who tried to “Mambo Italiano”
in 1955?
22. Who was the first singer to have
three number-one hits in the same
year on the UK singles chart?
23. What item worn by singer Pat
Boone became his trademark?
24. Whose debut hit record
was “Maybellene”?
25. Who was the first British
female singer to have a
number-one hit record?
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Jimi Hendrix

1. What were James Marshall
Hendrix’s original first and
middle names?
2. Jack Bruce was NOT a member
of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
True or False?
3. How many Jimi Hendrix
studio albums have been
released posthumously?
4. Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox, and
Buddy Miles were known
collectively as the what?
5. Jimi formed his first band in
1965. What were they called?
6. On which album did “Purple Haze”
first appear?
7. On which album was Hendrix
working when he died?
20. Which classical composer had
8. What 1950s rock-and-roller
claimed to have taught Jimi
Hendrix how to be “freaky”?
13. Which Bob Dylan song did Hendrix
famously cover?
14. With which military division did
Jimi Hendrix train?
15. Alongside which future band
member did Jimi Hendrix serve
in the military?
16. Hendrix once played in the
Isley Brothers’ backup band.
True or False?
17. Frank Zappa was responsible for
introducing Jimi Hendrix to the
wah-wah pedal. True or False?
18. In which year was Are You
Experienced released?
19. How many members of the Jimi
Hendrix Experience are alive today?
also lived in the London house
where Jimi Hendrix lived for
two years from 1968?

9. What was Jimi Hendrix’s

first hit?

10. In which city was Electric Lady

Studios built?

11. Jimi Hendrix was upset by the UK

issue of the album Electric Ladyland
because he had not authorized its
cover art. What did it show?

12. Rolling Stone magazine once

named Jimi Hendrix No. 1 on its
list of the 100 greatest guitarists
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of all time. True or False?

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Boy Bands from the 1980s

1. Which European boy band 13. British band Boyzone was formed
threesome suggested the world in 1987 but did not make a public
“Take on Me” in 1988? appearance until 1993. True or False?

2. Which Puerto Rican boy band 14. Which boy band formed in 1988 is
did not allow members over the also the most successful R&B group
age of 16? of all time?

3. Which US boy band invited their 15. Which 1980s boy band suggested
listeners to “Cool It Now” in 1984? “I Owe You Nothing” in 1987?

4. Which 1980s boy band featured two 16. Boy band A-ha’s best-selling
sets of brothers? album was what?

5. British boy band Bros was made
up of brothers Sam and Luke Goss.
True or False?
6. Nigel Martin-Smith decided to form
which boy band after seeing the
success of 1980s act New Edition?
17. Which boy band was singer Bobby
Brown fired from in 1985?
18. Now seen more often in films than
a recording studio, with which boy
band did actor Mark Wahlberg sing
in the 1980s?

7. After finding fortune with Bros in 19. Ricky Martin made his start in
the 1980s, which boy band did Tom which 1980s boy band?
Watkins form as rivals to Take That?
20. Eg White was a founding member
8. Formed in 1988, which was British of Brother Beyond and went on
boy band Big Fun’s big hit? to form pop duo Eg and Alice.
True or False?
9. Which English boy band hit the
charts with: “I Should Have Lied”
and “How Many Times”?

10. Which boy band, formed in 1988 in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, went on
to sell more than 60 million albums?

11. Which two members of boy band

‘N Sync first found fame in the late
1980s and 1990s on the New Mickey
Mouse Club TV show?

12. Which original boy band had chart

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success with “Can You Feel It?”

in 1980?

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The Best of 2012
1. Which number-one single had
almost 1 billion views on Youtube?
2. What jewel was Rihanna’s top song
in 2012?
3. Who won New Artist of the Year at
the American Music Awards 2012?
4. The British retailer John Lewis
used whose vocal for their
Christmas commerical?
5. Which artist revealed on her website
in November 2012 that she was
singing again after undergoing
vocal cord surgery?
6. In Taylor Swift’s song “We
Are Never Ever Getting Back
Together” how does her ex
“find his piece of mind”?
7. What is the name of Edward
Scissortongue’s debut solo album?
8. Which movie theme do these lyrics
come from? “This is the end / hold
your breath and count to ten / Feel
the earth move and then / hear my
heart burst again.”
9. Having composed “The Bassarids”
and “Elegy for Young Lovers,”
which major opera composer died
in 2012?
10. Which Scottish singer-songwriter
performed in both the opening and
closing ceremonies of the London
2012 Olympics?
11. In their duet, featured on his album
18 Months, what have Calvin Harris
and Rihanna discovered?
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QUIZ 207
12. Which song are these lyrics from:
“You’ll never love yourself / half
as much as I love you / you’ll never
treat yourself right darlin’ / but I
want you to”?
13. Which well-known music festival
did not take place in 2012?
14. Which rapper is featured in Olly
Murs’s song “Troublemaker”?
15. Which artist topped the Spotify
streaming chart of 2012?
16. In the song “Hall of Fame” by
the Script, which film character
is mentioned?
17. What was the official finale event
of the London 2012 Festival?
18. Which artist performed at the
2012 Super Bowl halftime show?
19. According to Forbes Magazine,
who was the highest-paid musician
of 2012?
20. Which veteran guitarist did
Jessie J perform with at the closing
ceremony of the London 2012
Olympic Games?
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All Things Grunge

1. Which independent record label is 13. Which grunge band did Courtney
most associated with grunge? Love front?

2. Which Mudhoney member is 14. Which 1992 Cameron Crowe film

credited with first using the featured cameos from popular
term “grunge”? grunge rock band members?

3. In which American city was 15. Which grunge band was the first to
grunge first created? sign to a major record label in 1989?

4. Without which item of
clothing would no grunge
rocker be complete?
5. Which “quiet, loud” band
did Kurt Cobain cite as his
major influence?
6. Henry Rollins is sometimes called
the “Godfather of grunge.” True
or False?
7. Which group had a hit with its
cover of the disco classic “We
Are Family”?
16. Who was the singer of grunge band
the U-Men?
17. Tad Doyle was the founder, singer,
and guitarist with grunge band Tad.
True or False?
18. How many albums have Nirvana
sold worldwide?
19. Which Soundgarden member was
formerly in Skin Yard?
20. Which Nirvana member went on
to form the Foo Fighters?

8. Which Screaming Trees member

released his first solo album The
Winding Sheet in 1990?

9. Which grunge band featured the

late Layne Staley on vocals?

10. Which grunge album replaced

Michael Jackson’s Dangerous at
number one on the Billboard 200
in 1992?

11. Which grunge band recorded

a cover of Spinal Tap’s
“Big Bottom”?

12. Which supergroup featured

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members from Soundgarden

and Pearl Jam?

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Genre, Lyrics, and Musicians
1. Which famous album cover features
four members of the band walking
across a zebra crossing?
2. Which Spice Girl auctioned her
famous Union Jack dress?
3. What is the name of the third studio
album by American hip-hop artist
Kanye West, which features a bear
on the album cover?
4. The British rap/hip-hop artist
Dylan Kwabena Mills is better
known as whom?
5. Complete these lyrics from Queen’s
“Bohemian Rhapsody”: “Is this the
real life? Is this…”?
6. What is the missing word from this
Led Zeppelin classic: “And she’s…
a stairway to heaven”?
7. According to Guinness World
Records, what is the most covered
song in history?
8. Which legendary rock musician had
hits including “Hey Joe,” “Fire,”
“Bold as Love,” and “Purple Haze”?
9. Which US singer-songwriter
won the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 2016?
10. Complete these lyrics from Lady
Gaga’s “Bad Romance”: “I want
your love, and I want your revenge,
you and me…”?
11. Which famous band, led by Chris
and also including Guy, Jonny, and
Will, plays the songs “Yellow’’
and “The Hardest Part’’?
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QUIZ 209
12. Which legendary blind soul
musician rose to fame when he told
everybody to do the “mess around”?
13. Which Motown soul superstar
“Heard It through the Grapevine”?
14. The musical Little Shop of Horrors
was written by Andrew Lloyd
Webber. True or False?
15. What is the popular name for
Debussy’s Suite Bergamesque III,
the romantic piece featured in the
films Ocean’s 11 and Twilight?
16. Who wrote Eine Kleine Nachtmusik?
17. When crooner Frank Sinatra sang,
“Start spreading the news, I’m
leaving today,” where would he be
“makin’ a brand new start of it”?
18. Which New Orleans jazz musician
lit up the early 20th century with
his famous trumpet solos and
distinctive gravelly voice?
19. Which classic musical, set in
London, features an orphanage,
an undertaker, an underground
pickpockets’ lair, and a pub?
20. Which Lloyd Webber musical is
based on the life of an Argentine
dictator’s wife?
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Punk
1. When was punk rock said to
have started?
2. Iggy Pop was asked to lead the
Sex Pistols, but he wasn’t able
to because he was what?
3. What bird do the Ramones have
on their logo?
4. Sid Vicious was named after John
Lydon’s hamster. True or False?
5. What was the name of the
best-known British punk fanzine?
6. Which US singer tumbled into the
orchestra pit during a gig, seriously
injuring herself on the concrete
floor below?
7. Which band did Joe Strummer
leave to join the Clash?
8. Who wrote the album Valley of
the Dolls?
9. Paul Simonon from the Clash was
so strapped for cash, he once ate the
glue he’d been using to hang flyers.
True or False?
10. Punk’s style is said to originate from
two tiny clothes shops on Chelsea’s
King’s Road. One was “Acme
Attractions”—what was the other?
11. Where did the Sex Pistols perform
their last gig?
12. Who was charged with murdering
his girlfriend in 1978?
13. Rat Scabies was the drummer
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of which band?
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14. Before finding fame as the lead
singer of Blondie, Debbie Harry
tried her luck as a game show
host. True or False?
15. Who was responsible for the
Sex Pistols’ influential
cut-and-paste artwork?
16. When was the first edition of the
magazine Punk published?
17. Whose performance at Woodstock
in 1994 descended into chaos?
18. “My guitar is not a thing. It is an
extension of myself. It is who I am.”
Who said this?
19. Susan Janet Ballion changed her
name to become whom?
20. Who was the leader of the
New York Dolls?
21. Which British punk rock band
was Captain Sensible most
associated with?
22. Which Dead Kennedys album
was released after they split up?
23. Which album by the Clash featured
the song “English Civil War”?
24. Which 1989 Stephen King film
featured a Ramones song on
the soundtrack?
25. After leaving the Sex Pistols,
John Lydon went on to form
which postpunk band?
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Unusual Instruments

1. In which country would you find 12. What is the 24-string stainless-steel
a rubber glove bagpipe? harp created by Robert Grawi?

2. Bethanien Kunstlerhaus was the 13. What is the name of the instrument
first person to invent the 10-string made up of glass bowls and glasses
double violin in 1986. True or False? of different sizes?

3. What natural element plays 14. A type of bow played by Creole

the Aeolian harp instead of
human hands?
4. The Aeolian harp was named
after the Greek god Aeolus.
True or False?
5. What is the name of the
traditional Indian instrument
that was sometimes played by
Beatle George Harrison?
musicians is the cigar box what?
15. What is a five-string double bass
with a five-octave range, 29
sympathetic, and four drone strings?
16. When did musician Mark Deutsch
finish creating the Bazantar?
17. In which country might you find a
crocodile zither?

6. What is a type of dulcimer played 18. The Japanese kaisatsuko is a type

with long attachable fingernails of bow that is played with a small
and often found in Greece and rotating wheel. True or False?
Eastern Europe?
19. Tod Machover is an American
7. What buzzing mouth instrument musician and inventor of
did Dion play on his 1962 hit “Hyperinstruments.” True or False?
“Little Diane”?
20. What instrument is Martin
8. The theremin is one of the first fully Žák known for playing with
electronic musical instruments which his Old-Time Country band?
can be played without touching it.
What year was it invented?

9. Which Beach Boys song featured

an electric theremin?

10. What is the world’s largest

instrument, which is housed in
a cave and is played by hitting
rubber mallets against stalactites?

11. What percussive instrument

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is featured on the 1975 hit

“Moonlight Feels Right”?

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Guitar Lovers

1. What bar is a vibrato unit found in
many electric guitars?
2. Which famous guitarist was
left-handed and compensated
by playing a right-handed guitar
upside-down?
3. The second string of a guitar is
the D string. True or False?
4. How many notes does the pentatonic
scale have?
5. Billie Joe Armstrong is the
lead singer and guitarist for
which band?
6. Famous blues artist B. B. King gave
all his guitars the same name. True
or False?
7. Often used for playing the blues,
how is a slide guitar played?
8. What are guitar-makers known as?
9. Les Paul collaborated on design
with which company?
10. “Noodling” is a guitar term.
True or False?
15. What does “arpeggio” mean?
16. “Sweep picking” describes a type of
picking that emphasizes off-beats.
True or False?
17. What was the first model guitar
produced by Fender?
18. How many notes are there in
a blues scale?
19. “Scoops,” “doops,” “gargles,” and
“vibrato” are all guitar techniques.
True or False?
20. A plectrum is also called a pick.
True or False?
21. Which type of guitar, which first
appeared in 1954, is considered
the most played in rock history?
22. How are guitars usually tuned,
starting from lowest to highest?
23. In an electric guitar, what are
the “microphones”?
24. What was the stage name of
Lester William Polsfuss, pioneer
and designer of electric guitars?

11. Who was known for his famous 25. Who created the first fretless bass?
“duck walk”?

12. What is a capo used for?

13. The sides of the guitar are known

as the what?

14. The guitarist Paul Weller led

which UK band?
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Opera
1. The Three Tenors famously brought
“Nessun dorma” to the masses, but
which Puccini opera was it from?
2. In Hades, who appeals to her
husband Plutone to grant
Orfeo’s prayers?
3. Which composer wrote an opera
that partly follows the story of
The Little Mermaid?
4. Which style of opera is
associated with silly plots
and light-hearted music?
5. Who wrote Die Fledermaus?
6. Which operetta is about a trip to
the moon in a hot-air balloon?
7. Dido and Aeneas is considered to
be the first full-length English
opera, but who was it written by?
8. In which opera does a devious
count try to seduce his wife’s
chambermaid?
9. Oratorios are different from operas
because they are generally not
performed with scenery or
costumes. True or False?
10. What was Gluck’s most
famous opera?
11. What is the name of the lieutenant
who marries a Japanese geisha in
Madama Butterfly?
12. Where is Porgy and Bess set?
13. Which opera features the “Flight of
the Bumblebee”?
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QUIZ 213
14. With whom did Robert Wilson
collaborate in creating Einstein
on the Beach?
15. Which revered 20th-century
Greek-American soprano was
known as La Divina, “The
Divine One”?
16. “Be still, stop chattering” by
J. S. Bach is a miniature comic
opera about the addiction to
which substance?
17. Which 18th-century castrato
had such a following that he
was able to make outrageous
demands, including entering
the stage on a horse?
18. Victorian operatic soprano Helen
Porter Mitchell is better known by
what name?
19. When did the Sydney Opera House
open its doors?
20. Rigoletto the hunchbacked jester
appears in an opera by Bellini.
True or False?
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The Beatles
1. Whom did Ringo Starr replace
as drummer?
2. Which Beatle crossed Abbey
Road first?
3. In the song “Revolution,” John
Lennon wanted his vocals to
have an unusual sound. How
did he achieve this?
4. Which band did Ringo leave
to join the Beatles?
5. How long is the book in
“Paperback Writer”?
6. What was the Beatles’ first
mainstream successful single
in 1962?
7. Who became the band’s manager
in 1962?
8. Who famously said the Beatles
were “more popular than Jesus”?
9. The final note on the Beatles song
“A Day in the Life” is the longest
recorded single note in music
history. True or False?
10. What was the last song that
John Lennon played before a
paying audience?
11. What was the working title of
the song “With a Little Help
from My Friends”?
12. What was the Beatles’ first album?
13. Whom did Paul McCartney
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14. Elton John and Abraham Lincoln
are on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s
Lonely Hearts Club Band. True
or False?
15. Which Beatle wrote “If I
Needed Someone”?
16. The working title for “Yesterday”
was “Scrambled Eggs” until Paul
could figure out the lyrics. True
or False?
17. Which Beatle sang “Say, Say, Say”
with Michael Jackson?
18. Which Beatles song was released
25 years after the band broke up?
19. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band is the first British
rock album to have the lyrics
for every song printed on the
back cover. True or False?
20. Which was the last album
released by the band?
21. Which album required more than
700 hours of recordings?
22. In which Beatles song did George
Harrison first play the sitar?
23. What did John Lennon change
his middle name to?
24. Which Beatles song has inspired
the most cover versions?
25. Who played bass guitar with the
early Beatles, left, and died in 1962?
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Musicals
1. Who was Alexander Hamilton,
the inspiration behind the hit
musical Hamilton?
2. The Sharks and the Jets are the
gangs in which musical?
3. Whose memoirs formed the
inspiration behind the musical
The King and I?
4. Which musical comedy is
adapted from the film Monty
Python and the Holy Grail?
5. Who was the star of the movie
Singin’ in the Rain?
6. Marlon Brando does not sing in
Guys and Dolls. True or False?
7. Who did Dan Aykroyd and
John Belushi play?
8. Secret Superstar (2017) was a product
of which moviemaking hotspot?
9. Which city is the setting for
On the Town?
10. Which British musical won
six Oscars in 1968?
11. Who created the 1975 musical
The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
12. The Greatest Showman is based on
the life of which circus owner?
13. Cabaret is set in which
European city?
14. What was the name of the Broadway
star on whom the musical Funny
Girl is based?
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15. Which musical is based on the
life of a female sharpshooter
who joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild
West show in 1885?
16. The Boys from Syracuse is based
on which Shakespeare play?
17. Who sang “Wand’rin’ Star”
in Paint Your Wagon?
18. Elvis Presley’s first film was
GI Blues. True or False?
19. Which musical includes the
songs “If I Loved you” and
“You’ll Never Walk Alone”?
20. Which musical was based on
a sewing machinists’ strike at a
Ford factory in 1968?
21. Who wrote both the music
and lyrics for Blood Brothers?
22. “If I Were a Rich Man” is
a song from which musical?
23. In which musical do the actors
perform the entire show on
roller skates?
24. When Phantom of the Opera
opened in London in 1986,
who starred in the title role?
25. Which musical tells the story of
two drag queens and a transgender
woman who are to play a drag
show at Alice Springs?
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Gods of Rock

1. Which 1960s band had a 22-year
gap between number-one hits, from
1966 to 1988?
2. Who played lead guitar for
Black Sabbath?
3. What number did Deep Purple’s
“Smoke on the Water” reach on
the US charts?
4. For which band has Steve Tyler
sung lead vocals?
5. In which country was
AC/DC formed?
15. Which band did David Coverdale
form when he left Deep Purple?
16. “Pinball Wizard” is featured in
which rock opera?
17. Where has the Monsters of Rock
festival usually been held?
18. Who recorded the original
“Stairway to Heaven”?
19. What was Thin Lizzy’s first top-
ten hit record?
20. What is Alice Cooper’s real name?

6. Who replaced David Lee Roth

for Van Halen?

7. Complete the name of this Iron

Maiden hit: “Bring Your Daughter
to the… ”

8. Which band is famous for its

outrageous black-and-white
make up?

9. Which guitar hero was

nicknamed “God”?

10. Ginger Baker was the drummer for

which rock supergroup?

11. Who recorded Exile on Main St.?

12. Who replaced Syd Barrett in

Pink Floyd?

13. Jimi Hendrix played guitar mainly

right-handed. True or False?

14. Which band was Eric Clapton in

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when he wrote “Layla”?

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1960s Music

1. What was the biggest-selling single 15. Jerry Garcia was the lead singer
in the US in the 1960s? for which group?

2. What was the name of the park that 16. Who was the lead singer for the
the Small Faces sang about in 1967? Velvet Underground?

3. Which Scottish singer was
responsible for the psychedelic
pop of “Sunshine Superman”?
4. Which instrument did Beach Boy
Dennis Wilson play?
5. What was the name of Jimi
Hendrix’s backing band?
6. Who released Beggars Banquet
in 1968?
7. Who wrote the song “Woodstock”?
8. Jim Morrison was the lead singer
with the Doors. True or False?
9. “The House of the Rising Sun” was
a transatlantic No. 1 hit single for
which group?
10. Sly and the Family Stone was
formed in 1967 by Brothers
Sly and whom?
11. American rockers Blue Cheer are
often credited as being the pioneers
of heavy metal. True or False?
17. Which band sang “A Whiter Shade
of Pale”?
18. Which band that wanted to be the
Beatles had its own TV show?
19. Neil Young and Steven Stills were
once both members of which group?
20. Who was the Who’s bass player?
21. Which comedian had the biggest-
selling UK single of 1965?
22. What was the name of the backing
group for Billy J. Kramer?
23. What was the Shadows’ first
No. 1 without Cliff Richard
in 1960?
24. Which song features a lyric about a
cake that was left out in the rain?
25. Whose hits included “One Way
Love” and “Got to Get You into
My Life”?

12. Denny Doherty was not a member

of the Mamas and the Papas. True
or False?

13. Who was “Born to Be Wild”?

14. In which year did Marvin Gaye

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make “I Heard It through the

Grapevine” a smash hit?

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Classical Music

1. Which movement began to 14. Who completed his A Midsummer’s

supersede Classicism around the Night’s Dream composition in 1842,
year 1830? 16 years after writing the overture?

2. Which conductor always appeared 15. Pachelbel was responsible for

wearing a white carnation? composing canons and what?

3. Why did Domenico Scarlatti 16. How is the piano significantly

name one of his compositions different from the harpsichord?
“Cat Fugue”?
17. Which dance is associated with
4. In Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, the piece of music “On the
where is Dido queen of? Beautiful Blue Danube”?

5. What does the classical music
term “andante” mean?
6. The crumhorn is a reed instrument.
True or False?
7. How many strings does the modern
orchestral harp have?
8. Sarah Chang is associated with
which instrument?
18. Who wrote The Nutcracker?
19. Who wrote a piece called
“Skittle Alley Trio”?
20. In which country is Delibes’s
opera Lakmé set?
21. What happened during a
performance of Stravinsky’s
Rite of Spring in 1913?

9. How old was Giuseppe Verdi when
he wrote his Requiem?
10. Barbara Strozzi was a female
singer and Baroque composer.
Where was she from?
11. What did Benjamin Britten use
to simulate raindrops in his opera
Noye’s Fludde?
22. Franz Liszt was hugely popular,
and his fans demanded clippings of
his hair. How did Liszt respond?
23. What does “a cappella” mean?
24. What is a variation?
25. Which conductor founded the
Promenade Concerts in London?

12. During a performance of Boris

Godunov at the Sydney Opera
House, what fell off the stage
and onto a cellist?

13. While touring in 1781, Muzio

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Clementi had a piano competition

against which famous composer?

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Top of the Pops
1. Between 1962 and 1969, John
Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote
around 180 jointly credited songs.
True or False?
2. Which influential figure in jazz
co-wrote “Mood Indigo” with
Barney Bigard?
3. Which Bryan Adams hit was No. 1
on the US charts for seven weeks?
4. Howard, Mark, Gary, and Robbie
are members of the famous pop
band Take That. Who is the missing
member from this list?
5. Which UB40 hit stayed on the
charts for more than 100 weeks?
6. Known as one of the first
entertainment superstars, who
won 11 Grammys, three Golden
Globes, and two Oscars?
7. How is singer Robyn Fenty
better known?
8. In 1981, which rock band sang the
hit “Down Under”?
9. In 2009, who became the first
artist to sell more than one million
download songs in a week?
10. Top guitarist Jimmy Page
sometimes uses a violin bow
with his guitar. True or False?
11. In the film Muriel’s Wedding,
with which pop group is
Muriel obsessed?
12. Which girl band sang
“Viva Forever”?
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13. Which group had a successful
album entitled Reggatta de Blanc?
14. What is the name of Bon Jovi’s
highest-selling single?
15. Who originally released the single
“Don’t Stop Believin”?
16. Elvis recorded more than 600
songs in his music career but
wrote or co-wrote only 10 of
them. True or False?
17. In 2009, who won two Academy
Awards for Best Original Score
and Best Original Song for the
film Slumdog Millionaire?
18. The Beatles performed on the very
first Top of the Pops broadcast.
What did they sing?
19. One of the biggest-selling albums
of all time, what is Led Zeppelin’s
fourth album called?
20. According to the Guinness Book
of World Records, who is the
top-selling female recording
artist of all time?
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1970s Music

1. What was the best-selling single
of the 1970s in the UK?
2. Who sang the title song for the
1970s Bond film The Man with
the Golden Gun?
15. Which American punk forefathers
wore lipstick and women’s
clothing onstage?
16. Who played bass for Parliament
and Funkadelic?

3. Who did John Joseph Lydon become
in the mid-1970s?
4. Errol Brown was the lead singer
of which band?
5. What was the best-selling film
soundtrack in the 1970s?
6. Which Bad Company singer was
formerly the lead singer in Free?
7. Bob Dylan’s 1978 album was
called Street… ?
17. Thin Lizzy was named after the
Model T-Ford, nicknamed the
“Tin Lizzie.” True or False?
18. Prog rockers Rush were originally
from Canada. True or False?
19. Which hard rockers produced
Highway to Hell in 1979?
20. In which year did the Clash release
London Calling?

8. Which outrageous arena act

were best known for its makeup
and pyrotechnics?

9. Every member of the Ramones

shared the last name “Ramone.”
True or False?

10. Which Cars member sang “Just

What I Needed”?

11. The 1978 song “Who Are You?”

was recorded by whom?

12. Which Led Zeppelin song makes

references to Norse mythology?

13. How long did it reportedly

take Van Halen to record its
debut album?

14. Which band released the album

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Parallel Lines in 1978?

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Guess the Year
1. The world is a colorful blur of
spandex, leg warmers, and Rubik’s
cubes, and Madonna has just released
“Like a Virgin.” The year is?
2. Nirvana bring grunge to
the mainstream stage with
“Nevermind.” What year is it?
3. The Beatles change the world
forever with the release of “Please
Please Me.” What’s the year?
4. In which year did the Bee Gees
unleash their seminal disco single
“Stayin’ Alive”?
5. “Thriller” took Michael Jackson
around six months and $750,000 to
make. In which year was it released?
6. In which year did Guns N’ Roses
reinvent rock music with their debut
album Appetite for Destruction?
7. Dylan’s six-minute single “Like a
Rolling Stone” was often thought to
have changed ideas about popular
music. When was it released?
8. In which year did Jimi Hendrix
release a cover of Bob Dylan’s
“All along the Watchtower”?
9. The Sex Pistols demanded that “God
Save the Queen” in which year?
10. The highly influential album The
Cars by the Cars was released in
which year?
11. Seattle rockers Soundgarden
first released an album in 1982.
True or False?
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QUIZ 221
12. In which year did Miles Davis
release what is thought to be the
best-selling jazz album of all time,
Kind of Blue?
13. In which year did metal monsters
Iron Maiden first form?
14. She’s So Unusual made Cyndi
Lauper the first female artist to have
four top-five singles on one album.
In which year did it come out?
15. Roy Ayers is a funk, jazz, and
soul composer whose hit record
Everybody Loves the Sunshine
was released when?
16. The Psychedelic Furs’ “Pretty in
Pink” would go on to be featured
in a 1986 John Hughes movie of
the same name. In which year was
the single first released?
17. In which year was Mark
Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” the
best-selling single?
18. “Knights in White Satin” was a
hit for the Moody Blues. When
was it released?
19. In which year did Elvis Presley
make his first recording, “My
Happiness,” with Sun Records?
20. When did Ed Sheeran release
his first album?
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Guitar Experts

1. What part of a guitar supports
the strings?
2. Where does the guitar brand
Ibanez originate?
3. Where in the world is the “tiple”
traditionally found?
4. The Telecaster was originally
known as the what?
5. Which virtuoso classical guitarist
was born in Melbourne in 1941?
14. Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan,
and Gary Moore are associated with
which genre of guitar playing?
15. Who was the lead guitar player
in the Police?
16. Playing two notes simultaneously is
called a “duo-pitch.” True or False?
17. What distinctive picking technique
developed from a banjo-playing
style and was used by guitarists
such as Johnny Cash?

6. Who was nicknamed 18. What is Slash’s real name?

“The Originator”?
19. How many frets are there on a
7. Which guitar did Jimmy standard classical guitar?
Page famously use for the
live performance of “Stairway 20. What does a “humbucker” do?
to Heaven’’?

8. What is the name of the famous

Spanish classical guitarist who
died in 1987?

9. What type of guitar is Joe

Bonamassa’s favorite?

10. Rage against the Machine’s Tom

Morello nicknamed his guitar what?

11. “Every time you pick up your

guitar to play, play as if it’s the
last time.” Who said this?

12. James Hetfield is associated

with which genre?

13. How many types of acoustic

guitar are there?
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 D I F F I C U LT QUIZ 223

Orchestras

1. How many different instrument
sections are included in a
standard orchestra?
2. How many instruments usually
make up an orchestra?
3. Which instrument does the rest
of the orchestra tune to?
4. Which horn is not part of
an orchestra’s brass section?
14. Which American was the first
woman to conduct a Last Night
of the Proms at the Royal Albert
Hall in London?
15. Is the celesta a woodwind,
brass, string, percussion, or
keyboard instrument?
16. With which British orchestra
was Sir John Barbirolli most
closely associated?

5. Which orchestra section 17. In accordance with Marxist ideals,

boasts more instruments
than all the others?
6. As what is the principal violinist
also known?
7. In an orchestra, which section
sits behind the strings?
8. In an orchestra, which instrument
sits between the violins and
the cellos?
9. Compared to a standard
orchestra, chamber orchestras
are usually what?
the Soviet Persimfans symphony
orchestra was formed in 1922
without a conductor. True or False?
18. How many conductors does
Evgeni Kostitsyn’s Third
Symphony require?
19. Which instrument is sometimes
used in addition to a core orchestra?
20. Which stringed instrument did
Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven all
occasionally play in an orchestra?

10. In which section would you find

an orchestra’s tamtam?

11. In an orchestra, who is considered

the leader of the entire brass section?

12. An orchestra conductor is also

known as “the first chair.”
True or False?

13. In which ancient civilization is

the modern orchestra thought to
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have its roots?

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Keeping the Beat

1. What material was used to cover 13. Which drummer was the first to
some of the first known drums? use double bass drums in the 1940s?

2. As what is the traditional 14. Which group did drummer Lars

drumstick grip more Ulrich play with?
commonly known?
15. More than 90 percent of drummers
3. What is the most well-known develop tinnitus within the third
African drum called? year of playing the instrument.
True or False?
4. What is the smallest drum kit
cymbal called? 16. Are brushes used on drums?

5. Common hand drums that come in 17. Which drummer was famous for
a set of two are called what? blowing up his drum kits onstage?

6. What is Dee Dee Chandler of New
Orleans credited with inventing
around 1904?
7. On recordings in the 1920s, the
brass instruments were placed
the farthest away from the drum
kit, to reduce distortion. True
or False?
18. Where does the drum called a
“bodhran” originate?
19. Which drum kit cymbal is used
to keep a steady rhythm?
20. Early drums dating from 5500
to 2350 bce have been found in
which country?

8. What was the name of the mad

drummer in the Muppets?

9. Which drummer led an orchestra

and was famous for his drum solos?

10. Macaque monkeys drum on objects

to display social dominance.
True or False?

11. Which part of a drum kit suffers

most commonly from cracks?

12. An early drum kit dating from the

second century bce was recently
discovered in a Polish salt mine.
True or False?
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1990s Music
1. Which band released the double
Illusion albums in 1991?
2. Which label were Seattle grunge
bands most associated with?
3. Which band was responsible for
the album Automatic for the People?
4. Which 1990s artist used to call
himself Romeo Blue?
5. Which rap act sang about
celebrating Martin Luther
King Jr.’s birthday in Arizona?
6. Which Icelandic singer made a riot
with “It’s Oh So Quiet” in 1995?
7. Which 1990s act sometimes
played live while bouncing
on trampolines?
8. Which threesome recorded the
theme song for the South Park
TV show?
9. Which two bands battled it out
for the Britpop throne?
10. Which Spice Girl was nicknamed
“Sporty Spice”?
11. Which ex-Nirvana member went
on to form the Foo Fighters?
12. What is Beck’s last name?
13. On which album did the Beastie
Boys play their own instruments?
14. With which band is Mike Patton
most associated?
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QUIZ 225
15. Which band did Courtney Love
front in the 1990s?
16. Which instrument is Tori Amos
usually seen playing?
17. Which album did Soundgarden
release in 1991?
18. Jerry Cantrell is best known for
his time with Alice in Chains.
True or False?
19. Who was the singer for
the Screaming Trees?
20. Who produced all of Metallica’s
albums in the 1990s?
21. What was the title of Britney
Spears’s first single, released
in 1998?
22. Who is the lead singer of Pearl Jam?
23. “Everybody’s Free to Wear
Sunscreen” was a 1999 hit for
which Australian artist, best
known as a film director?
24. According to Natalie Imbruglia in
1997, “Nothing’s right, I’m… ”:
what was she?
25. Which band had a 1997 hit with the
song “The Drugs Don’t Work”?
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CHAPTER 6

THE NATURAL
WORLD

Bugs, beasts, birds, and plants.

See how much you know about
how animals move, eat, and live.
Discover the wonders of
wildlife in trees, the ocean,
underground, and in your backyard.

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EASY QUIZ 226

Bugs and Beasts

1. I have a sting in my tail, and I am 18. What is the wing covering on

related to spiders. What am I? a ladybug called?

2. Some female spiders eat the male
spider after mating. True or False?
3. Millipedes have 1,000 legs.
True or False?
4. What are antennae for?
19. Which of these is NOT the real
name of a type of spider:
jumping, fishing, singing?
20. How do wasps differ from
bees regarding stinging?

5. In the US, it’s called a “ladybug.”

What is it called in the UK?

6. Which of these is an insect: ant,

earthworm, woodlouse?

7. Which of these is NOT an insect:

butterfly, bee, shrimp?

8. Social wasps make their nests

from what material?

9. I can build a nest up to 23 ft (7 m)

high; what am I?

10. How many flowers can a bee

visit in one minute?

11. Maggots are the young of… ?

12. When are ant eggs usually laid?

13. How does a leech feed?

14. What order do butterflies

belong to?

15. What name is used for a male bee?

16. How long does it take for a

snail to grow up?

17. How does a cricket make a sound?

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QUIZ 227
Marvelous Mammals
1. Which of these is NOT a group of
mammals: tortoises, bats, primates?
2. Which of the following do sea
otters eat: plankton, seaweed,
sea urchins?
3. What is a female elephant called?
4. Which of these is the loudest
land mammal: lion, hyena,
howler monkey?
5. Which of these is the smelliest
mammal: musk ox, raccoon, skunk?
6. Which of these mammals
lives the longest: dolphin,
chimpanzee, rabbit?
7. Which of these is NOT a feature
common to all mammals: hair,
warm blood, four legs?
8. Why do hippopotamuses
wallow in mud?
9. Mammals are the only animals
with true hair. True or False?
10. Some mammals carry their young
in pouches in their bodies. What is
this group called?
11. What is the main function of the
large ears of a desert mouse?
12. When cats pick up their kittens
to move them, where do they
grab hold of them?
13. How long can camels go
without water?
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EASY
14. The world’s smallest mammal
is a species of what?
15. Giraffes only sleep around
4.5 hours every day. True or False?
16. Which of these mammals is NOT
a carnivore: leopard, tamarin
monkey, meerkat?
17. Macaques like to take hot baths
to keep warm. Where in the world
are they found?
18. When did the first mammals appear?
19. The capybara, the world’s largest
rodent, is found where?
20. The biggest mammal on the planet
is the elephant. True or False?
21. Why do vampire bats produce the
protein draculin in their saliva?
22. Shark teeth fall out often and have
to be regularly replaced. How long
do most shark teeth last?
23. What is the rattle on the tail of
a rattlesnake made of?
24. Why do crocodiles and
alligators sometimes rest
with their mouths open?
25. Which members of the snail
family can inject a deadly
neurotoxin when picked up?
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EASY QUIZ 228

Birds of a Feather

1. How do song thrushes break
the shells of snails they eat?
2. What common group name
applies to birds such as quail,
pheasant, and grouse?
15. Black swans have been widely
introduced, but where are they
from originally?
16. How did shrikes come by their
alternative name of butcher birds?

3. What is a baby swan called? 17. How do bee-eaters avoid being

4. What is in an owl pellet?
5. What kind of bird was the
extinct dodo?
6. What talent do lyrebirds,
starlings, parrots, and mynahs
have in common?
stung by their prey as they eat it?
18. How do brown pelicans catch fish?
19. What is a barn swallow’s nest
made of?
20. Where do Atlantic puffins lay
their eggs?

7. What word is used to describe

a group of eggs in a nest?

8. Where do king penguins incubate

their eggs?

9. Which bird can dive at

175 mph (282 kmph) in pursuit
of prey, making it the world’s
fastest animal?

10. Which bird often seen on

Christmas cards is a member
of the order Passeriformes?

11. In which hemisphere do wild

penguins live?

12. What bird is traditionally kept

in the Tower of London?

13. What word is used to describe a

group of chicks in a nest?

14. Where are a kiwi’s nostrils?

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QUIZ 229 EASY

Great and Small

1. This slow-mover lets moss grow 16. Relative to its size, which is the
on its fur. What is it? loudest animal in the world?

2. Which is the most 17. What can a tiger, a lion, a leopard

intelligent mollusk? and a jaguar do that a cheetah can’t?

3. How many different species of shark
are there?
4. Which of these objects have been
found in sharks’ stomachs: a cannon
ball, a newspaper, a barrel of nails?
18. Mice like cheese. True or False?
19. What is a duck-billed platypus?
20. Which snake sprays venom directly
into the eyes of its enemies?

5. Why is the ladybug sometimes 21. What part of a shark’s body was
called “the gardener’s friend”? once used to make sandpaper?

6. What does a frog use to help push 22. Which big cat lives only in the high
food down its throat? mountains of Central Asia?

7. When a crocodile shovels down a 23. Which is the largest lizard in the
large meal, what does it appear to do? world, at up to 10 ft (3.1 m) long?

8. Vultures have a peculiar way of
keeping cool. What is it?
9. The cheetah is the fastest land
animal. How fast can it run?
10. What is a nocturnal animal?
24. The largest living member of the
crocodile family can reach about
23 ft (7 m) in length. What species
is it?
25. Which lizard feeds by firing out its
long sticky tongue?

11. The aardvark eats termites and ants.

How long is its tongue?

12. A kangaroo could leap over your

head. True or False?

13. An owl can swivel its head almost

all the way round. True or False?

14. Vampire bats are misnamed because

they don’t eat blood. True or False?

15. At up to 109 ft (33 m) in length, what

is the biggest animal in the world?

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Getting Around

1. A shark skeleton is made of what?
2. Why does the parrot fish inflate
its body?
3. Flamingos can bend their knees
backward. True or False?
4. How many times its own height
can a flea jump?
5. Which one of the following
animals walks on one toenail
per leg: horse, cow, snail?
6. Which of the following groups of
animals does NOT hunt for food in
packs: leopards, orcas, lions?
7. How far can an elephant jump?
8. Which animal sings with its legs?
15. Jellyfish use jet propulsion to move.
True or False?
16. Which one of the following moves
using water-filled tube feet: sea
urchin, maggot, slowworm?
17. What makes lemmings start to
move down from high ground?
18. Which of these animals can move
tripedally: sloth, human, kangaroo?
19. Which animal accelerates the fastest
from a standing start?
20. Bees perform a waggle dance in
the hive. About which one of the
following does the waggle dance
NOT give information: flower
color, distance, location?

9. Which group of animals flies in a

V-formation?

10. The whale’s flipper is a

modified what?

11. Which insect can run the fastest:

millipede, ant, cockroach?

12. Which one of the following

permanently hitches a ride on
another organism: humpback whale
barnacle, tick, suckerfish?

13. Which of these birds cannot hover:

kestrel, pigeon, hummingbird?

14. When the sidewinder snake

moves across a hot desert, how
many parts of its body touch
the ground?

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Plants

1. Which member of the carrot family, 14. Dock leaves are used as a traditional
commonly found in fields, sunny country remedy for what problem?
areas, and roadsides, is highly toxic?
15. The stems of common reed are
2. What is the function of the traditionally used for what purpose?
bubblelike bladder seen in
some seaweeds? 16. Which part of a sugar cane plant
is processed to produce sugar?
3. What are the “leaves” of ferns
more correctly called? 17. What do the plants known
as succulents store in their
4. How is grass pollen swollen leaves?
usually transported?
18. What plant forms the rather dull
5. Plants convert water, carbon diet of the giant panda?
dioxide, and energy from
sunlight into sugar. What is 19. What is the fruit of a rose called?
this process called?
20. Which part of the tree does olive
6. Which plant associated with oil come from?
disturbed ground is used to
commemorate World War I? 21. The name of which flower
originates from the ancient
7. What characteristic do deciduous Greek for star?
trees have in common?
22. Ericaceous plants like acid soil.
8. Which pigment gives plants a True or False?
green color?
23. Which king created the Hanging
9. Why don’t dairy farmers Gardens of Babylon?
like buttercups?
24. Burpless, pickling, and slicing
10. Why do water lily stems contain are varieties of which fruit?
large air spaces?
25. Plums, apricots, and apples are
11. How long does it take for a Venus members of which family of
flytrap to close on its victim? flowering plants?

12. Which flowers prompted an

economic boom and collapse in the
Netherlands in the 17th century?

13. Some plants are pollinated at night

by moths and bats. What color do
such flowers tend to be?

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In the Jungle

1. How many of the world’s 13. The red-eyed tree frog uses
species of plants and animals its bright eyes as a defense
can be found in the rain forest? mechanism. True or False?

2. It is estimated that there are many
millions of insects and plants in
the rain forest that are yet to be
discovered. True or False?
3. Which is the largest rain forest
in the world?
4. The loudest land animal in the
world lives in the rain forest.
What is its name?
14. The jungles of which three
countries would you visit to
see mountain gorillas?
15. Which slow-moving jungle
creature eats, sleeps, and gives
birth hanging from the branches
of the rain forest canopy?
16. How often does the sloth climb
down to the forest floor to defecate?

5. Which creature that flies above the 17. Which country would you visit
rain forest canopy is so bright that it to explore the rain forest of the
can be seen by airplane pilots? Monteverde Nature Reserve?

6. How many different species 18. Which book does the term “The
of poison dart frogs are there: Law of the Jungle” come from?
1,750, 175, 75?
19. Are lianas birds, mammals,
7. What rain forest creature has jaws or plants?
so powerful that it can pierce the
skulls of its prey? 20. What percentage of Earth do
jungles cover?
8. The jaguar catches fish by flicking
its tail onto the water to lure them
to the surface. True or False?

9. Which rain forest insect can

carry up to 50 times its own
body weight?

10. Are binturongs related to civets,

cats, or bears?

11. The rain forest hummingbird

is the only bird with the ability
to do what?

12. The hummingbird can also hover

in mid-air. True or False?

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Australian Animals
1. One of the most poisonous creatures
in the sea, the Australian box
jellyfish, can deliver a fatal sting.
What do beachgoers often carry
to treat such a sting?
2. The Australian snake with the most
toxic venom in the world is the what?
3. Often dragging its prey into a fatal
“death roll” is the highly aggressive
Australian what?
4. One of the most toxic sea creatures
in the world, found in Australian
seas, is only the size of a golf ball.
What is it?
5. A spiky animal that lives in
Australia is an echidna, a
quokka, or a Tasmanian devil?
6. Australia has more venomous
than nonvenomous snake species.
True or False?
7. The most venomous fish in the
world lives its life camouflaged as
a rock on the bottom of Australian
reefs. What is it called?
8. The poisonous Australian spider
that bites thousands of people every
year and practices cannibalism on
its mate is what?
9. This popular killer from movies and
books is found in large numbers off
the southern coast of Australia.
What is it?
10. Although considered humorous in
appearance, this Australian mammal
has highly venomous spurs on its
webbed feet. What is its name?
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11. This Australian spider has
venomous fangs that can bite
through fingernails and shoes.
What is it called?
12. The Australian wolf spider is
responsible for around one dozen
human fatalities a year. True
or False?
13. What kind of Australian scorpion
is often found in houses?
14. There is no antidote for the sting of
a marbled scorpion. True or False?
15. What is Australia’s wild dog called?
16. Often seen on outback roads in
Australia, this animal’s skin is
covered in highly toxic venom.
What is it?
17. The Australian spectacled flying
fox bat is considered more of a
threat to human survival than
nuclear war and airborne viruses.
True or False?
18. If left untreated, a bite from an
Australian funnel-web spider
can kill a human in two hours.
True or False?
19. Shy but deadly, the Australian
tiger snake is one of the world’s
most venomous snakes. Around
what percentage of people die
every year from an untreated bite?
20. Echidnas are one of the few
mammals that lay eggs. True
or False?

EASY
Wacky Animal Behavior
1. Elephants have the longest gestation
period of any animal. How long
does their pregnancy last?
2. Fireflies have a special organ
inside their abdomens that produces
flashes of light. Fireflies are which
type of insect?
3. How much krill can a blue whale
eat in a day?
4. Sharks have a sixth sense that allows
them to detect weak electrical signals
generated by their prey. True or False?
5. How does a sloth swim?
6. Which type of crab camouflages
itself by collecting tiny shells, bits
of seaweed, and sea anemones and
attaching them to its shell?
7. The golden poison frog contains
enough venom to kill up to how
many people?
8. How does a sea anemone
expel waste?
9. Which of these is a species of
elephant: African Bush, Asian,
African Forest?
10. Which of these things do horses and
cows have in common: jump great
heights, doze standing up, have
four stomachs?
11. How does a nesting northern fulmar
protect itself from attack?
12. A chameleon’s eyes move
independently, so it can look in two
directions at once. True or False?
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13. Which of these animals can
produce the loudest noise:
African lion, vampire bat,
blue whale?
14. Ants never sleep. True or False?
15. Other than navigation, what
does a cat use its whiskers for?
16. Shrews are always hungry.
Approximately what percentage
of their body weight in food do
they need daily?
17. Some doctors have used specially
bred blowfly maggots to treat flesh
wounds, because they eat dead
tissue and harmful bacteria. True
or False?
18. How many insects can certain bats
eat in a single night?
19. Koalas only eat one thing.
What is it?
20. An aphid can reproduce asexually
by producing clones of itself. True
or False?
21. Which type of mammal has the
largest eyes relative to its body size?
22. What is special about a mudskipper?
23. Where do young seahorses hatch?
24. Why does the olm or cave
salamander have no eyes?
25. Which crustaceans spend their
whole adult life standing on
their heads?
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Creepy Crawlies

1. Where are a butterfly’s taste 15. Approximately how many species

receptors located? of spiders are there?

2. Roughly for how long have 16. An aphid can give birth without
insects existed? mating. True or False?

3. What are the three parts that make 17. How many times its weight can
up an insect’s body? the rhinoceros beetle lift?

4. If you cut off a cockroach’s head, 18. Only full-grown male crickets
when will it die? can chirp. True or False?

5. For every human being, there are 19. Which of the following is NOT
200 million insects. True or False? an insect: spider, beetle, ladybug?

6. How many species of beetle
are there?
7. Insects have eyelids. True or False?
8. Which type of spider kills the male
during mating?
20. What is the study of insects called?
21. What do ordinary spiders like to eat?
22. Wood lice produce defensive
chemicals to make them taste foul
to most predators. True or False?

9. What is the name of the process by
which certain insects transform into
others, for example, a caterpillar to
a butterfly?
10. There is a species of caterpillar
that grows to over 3 ft (1 m) long.
True or False?
11. What material makes up part of an
insect’s exoskeleton?
23. Although water boatmen live
in the water, they breathe air.
True or False?
24. What do wood lice need to
do in order to grow?
25. What are the stages
of metamorphosis?

12. What do earwigs avoid?

13. Of all the species of animal on

Earth, approximately what
percentage are arthropods?

14. Cicadas only emerge from an

underground hiding spot every
13 or 17 years, depending on
the type. True or False?

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Secretly Deadly Animals
1. Which insect is responsible for
the disease malaria in humans?
2. Which is the deadliest scorpion
in North America?
3. Which slow-moving creature
has roamed the seas for more
than 500 million years and
can deliver a fatal sting?
4. An Australian box jellyfish
commonly known as the “sea wasp”
can kill a grown man in minutes
with one sting. True or False?
5. What large mud wallower can easily
outrun a human and is known to be
extremely temperamental?
6. Usually smaller than a human hand,
which variety of scorpion is the
most venomous in the world?
7. The slow loris is a harmless-looking
primate. What is its deadly secret?
8. Tsetse flies can cause what type
of illness?
20. A meal of the pufferfish can be
9. It is small, but the vampire bat
has a big reputation for being
deadly. Why?
10. This “red-bellied” fish variety looks
harmless on its own, but together
with its friends, it can strip a whole
cow. What is it?
11. The most painful bite inflicted
by an animal is said to come
from which tiny creature?
12. Racoons are known to attack
humans as a group. True or False?
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13. A common household pet, cats
can carry the parasite Toxoplasma
gondii, which is very dangerous for
pregnant women. True or False?
14. This slow mover usually hides under
the sand of the ocean bottom but
also has a deadly sting. What is it?
15. Small and yellow, this creature
is considered the most poisonous
vertebrate in the world. What is it?
16. Up to how many humans could
1 milligram of its poison kill?
17. The toxin from a stonefish can cause
temporary paralysis and death if left
untreated. True or False?
18. If eaten raw, a common earthworm
can kill a grown man in 30 minutes.
True or False?
19. Although I am considered a food
delicacy in some countries, I am the
second-most-poisonous vertebrate
in the world. What am I?
lethal if not served properly, and
only specially trained cooks can
prepare it. True or False?
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Living Spaces

1. Which of these deserts is NOT in
Africa: Namib, Sahara, Gobi?
2. The giant sequoia is a type of what?
3. How many legs does a jerboa have?
4. What physical process causes sand
to build in dunes in sandy deserts?
5. The Amazon Rain Forest is being
attacked by garimpeiros. What
are these people after?
6. Wild dromedaries (one-humped
camels) are found in Australia.
True or False?
14. What is the name of the large
roots that splay outward from
the trunk of rain forest trees?
15. The soil in a rain forest is usually
shallow and poor in nutrients.
True or False?
16. What type of environment is
often found close to a desert?
17. The “New Forest” was so called
by which king of England in the
11th century?
18. Which tree is traditionally used
to make cricket bats?

7. Namibia’s Skeleton Coast desert 19. Which fuel was traditionally made
is known for which type of in British woodlands by burning
weather phenomenon? coppiced poles?

8. Which mountain range is home 20. Leaf peeping is popular among

to the Berbers of Morocco? tourists in North America. What
does it involve?
9. Which of these countries does
NOT contain a part of the Amazon
Rain Forest: Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru?

10. Which large ape is known in

Malaysia as the “man of the
forest” and is threatened by
forest clearance?

11. Where is the Sonoran Desert?

12. Which of these wetland areas is

the largest: the Camargue, Florida
Everglades, Okavango Delta?

13. People from which European

country were the first to explore
the Amazon Rain Forest (after the
indigenous people)?

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Innovating Nature
1. Which animals identify each
other by a special whistle?
2. Which animal makes a sound
that can be heard 1,000 miles
(1,600 km) away?
3. A narwhal is a small whale
with one long straight tusk.
What is the tusk?
4. Spiders make their webs from
a type of silk. What is special
about it?
5. Bats make ultrasound noises to
catch their prey. Humans cannot hear
these because ultrasound is what?
6. The peregrine falcon is the
fastest flying bird. Its top speed
is about what?
7. Angler fish live in darkness at the
bottom of the ocean. They make
parts of their body glow to attract
prey. What is the glow called?
8. A fish can rise or sink in the
water by adjusting its buoyancy.
What else uses this technique?
9. A helicopter can fly backward.
Which of these can also fly
backward: a seagull, a duck,
a dragonfly?
10. A bird’s wing has a special curved
shape, like the wing of an airplane.
What is this special shape called?
11. A dolphin finds fish using
a technique that has been
copied by humans. What
is the technique called?
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12. A pistol shrimp has a special way
to catch its prey. What does it do?
13. The sperm whale’s head contains
a big bubble of oil. What is
this called?
14. Each time a kangaroo lands
after hopping, it saves some
energy for the next bounce.
How do its legs accomplish this?
15. Which fish stuns its prey with
a 500-volt shock?
16. Humans did not invent recycling.
Which of these is an example of
recycling: a spider eating an old
web, a squirrel burying a nut, a
bat sleeping through winter?
17. Cooperation started long before
there were people. Insects pollinated
plants and got nectar in return.
What is this called?
18. The bubbles in bread come
naturally from a microbe.
What is that microbe called?
19. We can control rivers with dams.
Which animal showed us how?
20. Which plant snaps shut on its prey?
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Mammals

1. Which type of primate is an indri? 16. Where do armadillos come from?

2. What is the correct name for a group 17. Which type of animal is only
of wolves? found in Australia?

3. What is a group of lions called? 18. Which part of the human body
do parasitic whipworms infect?
4. What animal rears its young in
a nest called a drey? 19. What other common name is
often used for the bonobo?
5. What name is given to the
interconnected burrows of rabbits? 20. The capybara is an excellent
swimmer. True or False?
6. How soon after birth can
a wildebeest calf get to its
feet and run?

7. What is the flap of furry skin along

a sugar glider’s flanks used for?

8. What does a pangolin do when

it feels threatened?

9. What is stored in the hump

of a camel?

10. What important job do bacteria

do in the stomach of a cow?

11. Where do koalas live?

12. What is the correct name for the

chisel-like front teeth of rodents
and other mammals?

13. The puma is known by many

names. Which of these is NOT
one of those names: cougar,
mountain lion, jaguar?

14. Which great ape is found on the

islands of Sumatra and Borneo?

15. What kind of markings typify

a tabby cat?

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Top and Bottom Sea Life
1. Which of these is the correct name
of a deep sea fish: snaggletooth,
toothface, fangtooth?
2. Which creature takes its name from
a famous monster and has the ability
to turn itself inside out?
3. Many deep-sea creatures make their
own light called “bioluminescence.”
True or False?
4. The barreleye fish is also known
as the spookfish, spectre eel,
or wraith?
5. What is the name of the deep-sea
fish that has a glowing “lure” at the
end of its nose?
6. The anglerfish devours its catch
whole as soon as it touches its lure.
True or False?
7. Which eel was named after the size
of its huge mouth?
8. The deep-sea blue hake and
spiny eel are on the verge of
extinction. Why?
9. Why does the hatchetfish have eyes
at the top of its head?
10. How far can a flying fish travel in
one glide?
11. Which long and very thin fish
spends its whole life in the total
darkness of the sea floor?
12. The deep sea is an extremely hostile
environment, with temperatures
that rarely exceed 37°F (3°C).
True or False?
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13. What is considered the most
common deep-sea fish?
14. There are many more deep-sea
creatures that are yet to be
discovered. True or False?
15. Deep-sea creatures have eyes
that are how many times more
sensitive to light than human eyes?
16. The viperfish has such long
teeth that it cannot close its
mouth. True or False?
17. How does the cookiecutter shark
get its name?
18. Many deep-sea creatures are blind.
True or False?
19. How do many blind creatures
detect food?
20. What do most deep-sea creatures
rely on to survive?
21. Which reproductive changes happen
to a spotted grouper as it grows up?
22. What advantage does the
hammerhead shark’s strange
head give it?
23. Some sea cucumbers can eject
their guts through their rear
ends and then grow a new one.
But why do they do it?
24. Scallops have up to 200 eyes.
True or False?
25. What determines the body
temperature of most fish?
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Mad about Plants

1. An abundant growth of lichens is 15. Horsetails are among the

usually a sign of what?
2. The monkey puzzle is the national
tree of which country?
3. Ferns reproduce using spores.
Where do the spores develop?
4. What name is sometimes
given to the curled fronds
of developing ferns?
5. What kind of plant is the
prickly pear?
6. What can slow the reaction time
of a Venus flytrap?
7. Which plant produces the world’s
largest flower?
oldest-known land plants.
When did they first appear?
16. The king protea is the national
flower of which country?
17. What name is given to blooms
of toxic diatoms that sometimes
appear at sea?
18. What color are the flowers
of watercress?
19. What is the world’s most
widespread conifer?
20. The bristlecone pine is the
longest-living tree known.
How many years can one live?

8. Where might you find

sea lettuce?

9. Liverworts reproduce using spores

and cell clusters called gemmae.
How are these spread?

10. Why do some holly trees never

produce berries?

11. The strange desert plant known

as welwitschia produces only two
leaves in its lifetime. How long
does it live?

12. Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant

known. How much can a stem grow
in one day?

13. What color are wild daffodils?

14. What plant is the main component

of natural peat?

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Climate Change
1. Which country emits the most
carbon dioxide?
2. For how long have there been
reliable written climate records?
3. Climate change can cause the
extinction of animals and plants.
True or False?
4. The two main greenhouse gases
that contribute to global warming
are methane and carbon monoxide.
True or False?
5. What has happened to ice shelves
on the Antarctic Peninsula over the
last 50 years?
6. Climate change is felt equally all
over the world. True or False?
7. Which of these sources of energy is
NOT a fossil fuel: coal, oil, light?
8. What percentage of the world’s
wood harvest is burned for fuel?
9. When was the Kyoto Protocol
introduced, which sought to
bring carbon-dioxide emissions
under control?
10. Climate affects volcanoes.
True or False?
11. How does polar ice and snow help
to keep the planet cooler?
12. What is fracking?
13. If Earth’s surface temperature
increases, the amount of seawater
that evaporates can trigger storms.
True or False?
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14. Deforestation and changes in
land use account for what
percentage of carbon released
into the environment?
15. What does the secondary
footprint measure?
16. Which of these is NOT a result of
climate change: population increase,
more storms, raised sea levels?
17. How much of the Arctic Sea ice
could disappear by 2050?
18. What is the name of the warm
current that brings heavy rain to
western South America every few
years and causes flooding?
19. The world’s average temperature
has risen by 1 degree every decade
since 1960. True or False?
20. Which scientific organization
assesses the information relevant to
the understanding of climate change?
21. The weather is the same as climate.
True or False?
22. Which of these indicate climate
change: more rain, increased
population, higher humidity?
23. The richest half of the world is
responsible for what percentage
of overall global emissions?
24. Floods and droughts are
hydrometeorological disasters.
True or False?
25. Wasting less food helps cut down
greenhouse gases. True or False?
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Humongous Fungus

1. How do mushrooms reproduce? 14. Glow-in-the-dark fungi were

2. Tuber magnatum is one of the
world’s most expensive foods.
What is it commonly known as?
3. What color is the sulfur
tuft fungus?
4. What does a chanterelle mushroom
smell of?
5. What name is given to the black or
white fungus that often grows on
objects in damp rooms?
6. What is the study of
mushrooms called?
7. What name is given to the rootlike
fibers from which mushrooms and
toadstools grow?
20. Which fairy-tale mushroom was
8. Marmite (Vegemite) is an extract of
which type of fungus?
used for indoor lighting in early
submarines. True or False?
15. Which medical condition is
caused by a fungus growing
on the human body?
16. Which type of drug was first
discovered in a fungus?
17. Where are you likely to find
the fungus mucor?
18. Which of the following cheeses does
NOT contain the fungus penicillium:
Stilton, Gouda, cottage cheese?
19. What carbohydrate is found in both
the fungal cell walls and the outer
body cases of insects?
traditionally used to attract and
kill flies?

9. The smell of the stinkhorn fungus

attracts which type of animal to help
carry its spores?

10. What gas produced by yeast fungi

helps bread to rise?

11. The fly agaric mushroom is

generally associated with which
type of tree?

12. A lichen is a combination

of a fungus and what other
kind of organism?

13. What kind of ant cultivates

a fungus within its nest to
make food?

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Wonderful Animals
1. Which of these is a very poisonous
spider found in Australia: funnel
web, black widow, huntsman?
2. Dogs can smell whether someone
has cancer. True or False?
3. Insects have tiny holes
covering their bodies to
let air in. True or False?
4. Roughly how many species of
insects have been identified?
5. Which animal can survive
the freezing process?
6. What animal can dig 66 ft (20 m)
of tunnels a day?
7. What are young whales called?
8. Which is the world’s smallest
bird at 2½ in (6 cm) long?
9. How fast can an emu run?
10. Which bird species has the
biggest beak?
11. Which of these sharks can
swim the fastest: nurse,
leopard, mako?
12. What do opossums do to fool
their attackers?
13. Which animals use echolocation?
14. How long is a giraffe’s tongue?
15. Which of these fish contains
enough poison to kill 30
people: sunfish, bamboo
shark, pufferfish?
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16. The strange beak of the crossbill is
specially adapted for what purpose?
17. In which of these species does the
male become pregnant; octopus,
seahorse, ant?
18. Which animal has learned to open
a jar of food: dog, seal, octopus?
19. Which animal can hear the highest-
pitched sound: moth, dolphin, bat?
20. What is special about the barnacles
of the genus Coronula?
21. What substance, produced by cave
swifts, is the main ingredient in
bird’s nest soup?
22. Which is the only group of
crustaceans able to breed on land?
23. Why don’t razorbill eggs roll off
cliff ledges where they are laid?
24. The world’s deepest-diving bird
has been recorded at depths of
1,770 ft (540 m). What is it?
25. Why is the green basilisk
lizard sometimes called the
“Jesus Christ lizard”?
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Size Matters

1. How big is a newborn red kangaroo?
2. What is the largest owl?
3. What is the largest living
toothed mammal?
4. What is the world’s largest jellyfish?
16. How long are the stinging tentacles
of a Portuguese man o’ war?
17. How much blood can a typical leech
consume in one meal?
18. The largest species of ray has a fin
span of about 23 ft (7 m). What is it?

5. The heaviest invertebrate ever 19. The world’s biggest spider grows
recorded was a mollusk weighing up to 11 in (28 cm) across. What
1,100 lb (495 kg). What species is it called?
was it?
20. Rhinoceros beetles are immensely
6. Which is the largest living species strong. How much weight can
of penguin? they lift?

7. Which fierce little mammal is the
smallest species of carnivore?
8. What is the largest species
of dolphin?
9. What is the largest living marsupial
meat-eater?
10. Which is the world’s heaviest
monkey, at up to 82 lb (37 kg)?
11. What is the world’s largest wild cat?
12. Tapeworms live in the gut of larger
animals and steal their food. How
long can a tapeworm grow?
21. Which bird can see small rodents
on the ground from a height of
15,000 ft (4,572 m)?
22. The bootlace worm can reach 190 ft
(58 m) in length. True or False?
23. The largest carnivorous dinosaur
was thought to be the what?
24. Which bird lays eggs the
size of a pea?
25. Approximately what percentage
of DNA do humans and
chimpanzees share?

13. Which is the smallest member of

the penguin family?

14. The Flemish Giant is the

largest breed of which
domesticated mammal?

15. On average, a blue whale’s tongue

weighs around 3 short tons
(2.7 metric tons). True or False?

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Birds Are Brilliant

1. The stork has the world’s biggest
beak. True or False?
2. Weaver birds build the world’s
biggest tree nests. True or False?
3. Rüppell’s vulture is the highest
flying bird. How high can it fly?
4. How deep can emperor penguins dive?
5. Which bird has the loudest call? It
can be heard 4½ miles (7 km) away.
6. How fast can a roadrunner run?
Beep, beep!
7. Only birds have feathers. True
or False?
8. Which of these do birds NOT use to
help guide them during migration:
wind, landmark, the sun?
16. A cygnet grows up to be what?
17. Why are flamingos pink?
18. The kiwi is the national bird
of which country?
19. Ostrich eggs are poisonous.
True or False?
20. What makes up most of a
hummingbird’s diet?
21. What is guano?
22. Aptenodytes forsteri is the name
for which tall nonflying bird?
23. Pica pica is the scientific name
for which bird?
24. Which birds are sometimes called
sea parrots?

9. Turkeys have wattles. What 25. Columbidae are commonly

are wattles? known as what?

10. What are feathers made from?

11. How long ago did birds evolve?

12. What bird makes a meowing sound

and a clucking sound?

13. Ian Fleming named James Bond

after a famous ornithologist, who
was an expert on Caribbean birds.
True or False?

14. This owl has the best hearing of

any bird. Which species of owl is it?

15. Ducks and geese follow the

first thing they see. What is this
behavior called?

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Making Sense of It All
1. Bats prevent damage to their ears
by what?
2. Flies taste sugary food with
their what?
3. A bear’s brain is one-third the size
of a human’s, but how many times
better than ours is its sense of smell?
4. What are the taste receptors on a
butterfly’s feet called?
5. Some fish have a sixth sense
called the “lateral line.” It is
involved in assessing what?
6. Which mammal has the biggest
ears for its body size?
7. Turtles can echolocate. True or False?
8. Crickets hear using their legs.
True or False?
9. Which of these animals cannot
move its eyes independently
of one another: seahorse,
chameleon, sheep?
10. Does a penguin have a flat
or curved cornea so it can
see clearly underwater?
11. Which of the following has the
greatest number of different types
of color receptors in its eyes: bird,
mantis shrimp, bull?
12. The mammal with the best sense
of touch is the what?
13. Which of these animals cannot close
its nostrils: camel, otter, penguin?
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14. The colossal squid has an eye
about the size of a what?
15. Which mammal can “hear” with
its feet?
16. Some animals have infrared sensors
which they use to identify what?
17. Some species of fish produce
electrical discharge to communicate
with each other. True or False?
18. Which of the following can
have the most eyes: earthworm,
spider, starfish?
19. Which animal can hear the
lowest frequency of sound?
20. Jacobson’s organs are found in
snakes. What does this organ
help a snake to do?
21. How many eyes does the box
jellyfish have: 8, 12, 24?
22. Each eye on a fly has 3,000 lenses.
True or False?
23. Can a four-eyed fish see in air
and water at the same time?
24. Which tongue has the most taste
buds: human, pig, rabbit?
25. Which animal has a “nose leaf”
to help it find food?
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Sea Creatures

1. How long are the tusks of a
male walrus?
2. What is the cuttle of a cuttlefish?
3. What is the alternative common
name of the beluga whale?
4. What does the thresher shark use
its enormous tail for?
15. The Japanese spider crab is the
world’s biggest arthropod. What
is its leg span?
16. The ink produced by a squid is
brown. True or False?
17. Which group of invertebrates has
larvae known as nauplii, cyprids,
and zoea?

5. What is the longest 18. What is the chalky shell of a sea

ray-finned fish in the world, urchin called?
at up to 36 ft (11 m)?
19. What kind of animal is a Venus’s
6. Why do baby angelfish have flower basket?
different markings than adults?
20. Where are the gills of a sea slug?
7. At what age do baby hooded seals
become independent?

8. Bowhead whales are thought to be

the longest-lived mammals. What
age was the oldest one known?

9. How do walruses find food in

murky water?

10. How long can the tusk of a male

narwhal grow?

11. The largest species of seal

reaches almost 23 ft (7 m) in
length. What is it?

12. The Mediterranean monk seal

is the world’s rarest seal. True
or False?

13. Which mammal has the longest

annual migration?

14. How many eggs can a female

oyster produce in a lifetime?

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Animal Magnetism

1. What term is used to describe an
animal that is genetically identical
to its parent?
2. If a turtle’s eggs are incubated in
low temperatures, they will mostly
hatch as males. True or False?
3. Giraffes usually give birth to twins.
True or False?
4. What are gametes?
14. What is the term used for a
young seahorse?
15. The jawfish keeps its eggs safe from
predators by doing what?
16. How long do young orangutans stay
with their mothers?
17. In some bird and insect species,
males gather to compete for the
female. What is this called?

5. Massive timed egg release by 18. What is sexual dimorphism?

animals such as corals and fish
is called what?
6. What animal remains a juvenile
its whole life?
7. How do snakes find their partners?
19. What do cuttlefish do after laying
their eggs?
20. Swans are known to have one mate
for life. What name is given to this
kind of relationship?

8. There is a particular way a sea bird

called the booby attracts its mate.
Which of the following is the most
important: its blue feet, its dance,
its song?

9. Which birds are well-known for

their dazzling courtship displays?

10. Which of the following animals

is NOT a hermaphrodite: spider,
slug, snail?

11. Which bird collects brightly colored

sticks and stones to woo its mate?

12. What is it called when an insect

such as a caterpillar turns into an
adult butterfly?

13. What are frogs called at the stage

between tadpoles and frogs?

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Creature Features
1. What is the biological term for a
bird, such as a cuckoo, that lays
its eggs in another’s nest?
2. What kind of bird is an avocet?
3. How many eggs does a female
cuckoo lay in each host nest?
4. How do ring-tailed lemur troops
settle boundary disputes?
5. What bird migrates farther than
any other animal, visiting both
the Arctic and Antarctic circles
each year?
6. What bird has a call known as
a “boom”?
7. Which bird of prey is nicknamed
“windhover,” because of its
hunting technique?
8. How far in an hour could a garden
snail travel at top speed?
9. What kind of animal is a
slow worm?
10. What alternative name is sometimes
used for the European bison?
11. What kind of animal is
a silverfish?
12. Are centipedes vegan, omnivorous,
or carnivorous?
13. What color is the breast of a
male bullfinch?
14. The hellbender is a large member
of which group of animals?
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15. Nematode worms are the most
abundant animals in many
soils. How many can 10 sq ft
(1 sq m) contain?
16. In 1767, Gilbert White described a
species of tiny mouse found in corn
fields. What did he call it?
17. The white rhino is actually gray. The
name comes from the Afrikaans
word widje, meaning what?
18. The American millipede Illacme
plenipes is thought to have the most
legs of any animal. How many?
19. The dormouse gets its name from
the French word dormir, meaning
“to sleep.” How long does this dozy
rodent hibernate?
20. What are American marmots also
known as?
21. For how long does the mayfly live?
22. Which animal sleeps for nearly
22 hours a day?
23. Which animals never sleep
like other animals, though they
can take rests?
24. Which animal feeds but has no gut?
25. In what unusual way do starfish
digest their food?
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A Gaggle of Geese

1. What is the word for a group of 15. What is the collective noun
swans flying in V formation? for starlings?

2. Which word describes a group 16. Which of these describes a group

of elk? of badgers: cete, crate, crete?

3. Which amphibian does the collective 17. “Barren” is a collective noun for
noun “knot” describe? which animals?

4. Groups of rats, wolves, grouse, 18. A “smack” describes a group of

and hounds can all be described which ocean creatures?
by which word?
19. Which do NOT live in colonies:
5. “Sleuth” is the collective noun ants, bees, bats, bears?
for which mammal?
20. A group of larks is called an
6. A group of penguins is called a “exaltation.” True or False?
“rookery.” True or False?

7. Which of the following does NOT

refer to a group of ducks: raft,
waddle, paddle?

8. What is the collective noun

for moles?

9. Which musical term describes

a group of gorillas?

10. A “charm” is the collective noun

for what?

11. Which of the following does

NOT refer to a group of bees:
buzz, hive, swarm?

12. “Stand” is a collective noun for

which kind of bird?

13. “Irritation” is a collective noun

for head lice. True or False?

14. Which word cannot be used

to describe a group of zebras:
herd, cohort, stripe?

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Birds
1. Which of these birds is flightless:
condor, osprey, kiwi?
2. An ostrich can reach speeds of up
to 45 mph (72 kmph) when running.
True or False?
3. What is the name of the place
where penguins mate and raise
their young?
4. The peregrine falcon in flight
is the fastest animal in the world.
True or False?
5. The wandering albatross is famous
for a specific trait. What is it?
6. Which of these birds of prey is the
heaviest in the world: golden eagle,
Andean condor, spotted harrier?
7. In which season do swans
typically mate?
8. How can you tell a male from a
female song thrush?
9. What is the term given to the
study of birds?
10. Approximately how many red-billed
quelea, the world’s most abundant
wild bird, are there in the world?
11. Which is the heaviest bird in the US?
12. There may be 18,000 bird species,
double the number previously
thought. True or False?
13. What is the name for a male duck?
14. Which species of bird can fly high
enough to soar over Mt. Everest?
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15. What is the collective noun for a
group of owls?
16. An ostrich’s eyeball is larger than
its brain. True or False?
17. Which bird is the national symbol
for the United States?
18. What country does the King of
Saxony bird of paradise come from?
19. What does the Indian tailor bird
use to sew leaves to make a nest?
20. A bird’s sense of smell is stronger
than its sense of hearing. True
or False?
21. What is the function of the gizzard
in seed-eating birds?
22. A cassowary egg is bigger than an
ostrich egg. True or False?
23. How do seabirds regulate their
salt intake?
24. How many eggs do puffins lay?
25. Which is the heaviest flying bird?
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On the Seashore
1. What is the seashore also known as:
the foreshore, the littoral zone, the
intertidal zone?
2. Only creatures that can cope with
harsh extremes can survive life on
the seashore. True or False?
3. What is the most common
vegetation found on the seashore?
4. What is a type of seashore crab that
uses discarded seashells as its home?
5. Which creature would you
commonly find in a rock pool:
starfish, mussels, clams?
6. Some species of starfish can regrow
lost arms. True or False?
7. Which seashore creature waits for
its prey to climb onto it and then
paralyzes it with stinging harpoons?
8. A sea anemone can clone itself
to reproduce. True or False?
9. I live on the rocky shallows of the
seashore and crawl along using my
arms. I am a what?
10. This seashore creature is small, is
round, floats in the water, and has
a translucent color. It is a what?
11. Jellyfish are carnivorous and sting
any suitable prey, such as small
crustaceans and fish. True or False?
12. Black sandy beaches in the Canary
Islands are what?
13. Sea slugs have both male and female
reproductive organs. True or False?
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14. I have a conical shell and cling
tightly to seashore rocks. I am
a what?
15. There are “True” and “False”
limpets. True or False?
16. Mexico has more seashores than
any other country. True or False?
17. Seashores almost always have three
zones: a high-tide zone, a middle-
tide zone, and a low-tide zone.
True or False?
18. Which seashore zone is home to
the most life?
19. What are coral animals called?
20. Because the water is shallow in
seashore rock pools, it allows
photosynthetic activity to take place
beneath the surface. True or False?
21. A stretch of sea water separated
from the open sea by a narrow
strip of land is a…?
22. About half the world’s population
lives within 60 miles (100 km) of
a coast. True or False?
23. What name is given to the process
whereby the waves hit the beach at
an angle and move material along
the coast?
24. Which of these does NOT
affect global sea level rise:
melting glaciers, melting sea
ice, ocean temperatures?
25. Sea level can change regionally.
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Endangered Species
1. The endangered pangolin is
found in Asia and which
other continent?
2. Which Arctic animal is predicted
to become extinct within a century
if global warming continues at
today’s rate?
3. In which year was the Javan
rhinoceros added to the critically
endangered list?
4. Which endangered creature
migrates every winter from
North America to Mexico?
5. Which fish commonly used in sushi
is on the World Wildlife Fund’s
endangered list?
6. The kakapo is a flightless bird
found in New Zealand. In 2020,
how many were left in the wild:
200, 147, 50?
7. Oil spills and warming ocean
currents have made the Magellanic
penguin an endangered creature.
True or False?
8. How many endangered snow
leopards are thought to still
exist in the wild?
9. As what is the endangered creature
Balaenoptera musculus more
commonly known?
10. Which country is the native
habitat of the endangered
Komodo dragon?
11. How many endangered species
of animals are there worldwide?
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12. The leatherback turtle has existed
for more than 23 million years but
now faces extinction. True or False?
13. The Siberian tiger is an endangered
subspecies of tiger. How many other
subspecies are already extinct?
14. There are estimated to be only
around 250 crested ibises still in
existence. From which continent
is the bird?
15. The tapir of which country is on
the endangered list?
16. What part of the world is the
native habitat for the endangered
mountain gazelle?
17. Which of these creatures is NOT
yet extinct in the wild: red howler
monkey, Catarina pupfish,
Wyoming toad?
18. The Yangtze river dolphin was
removed from the critically
endangered list in 2009.
True or False?
19. How many Javan rhinoceroses
are there left in the wild?
20. Only around 1,000 of this large
primate remain in the wild.
What is its name?
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Plants

1. What is the name of the male parts
of the flower that make pollen?
2. Foxgloves have dots on their
petals to direct pollinators to their
nectar. What are these called?
15. Agaves are able to withstand
drought, heat, and full sun. Where
did they originate?
16. Peanuts are part of the legume
family. True or False?

3. Eucalyptus leaves are poisonous.
True or False?
4. “Fly agaric” is the name of a
mushroom. True or False?
5. Allium sativum is the botanical
name for which plant?
6. The sap of which plant can be used
to treat burns and inflammation
because of its cooling properties?
17. What is the technique called when
you put a new variety of plant onto
an existing plant?
18. The process where plants drop their
leaves is known as what?
19. Where are you most likely to find
a beech tree?
20. Which part of the globe artichoke
plant is eaten?

7. Where in the world would you find

baobab trees?

8. Out of the following, which of

these trees grows catkins: willow,
poplar, birch?

9. The male cones on a conifer tend

to be soft and smaller than female
cones. True or False?

10. How many species of cactus

are there?

11. Which plant catches insects by using

drops of sticky liquid on its leaves?

12. An angiosperm is a plant that what?

13. Roses can be almost every color

of the spectrum apart from what?

14. The difference between herbs and

spices is the part of the plant they
come from. True or False?

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Extinct Animals

1. The largest-ever eagle once flew over
the skies of New Zealand until it
became extinct. What was it called?
2. The aurochs became extinct in the
early 17th century. What kind of
animal was it?
13. What type of animal was
a Meganeura?
14. The kronosaurus is a now-extinct
reptile that existed during the
dinosaur age. In which habitat
did it live?

3. What extinct bird had a huge beak
and couldn’t fly?
4. Coelodonta is a now-extinct Ice
Age mammal. What is its more
common name?
5. The European lion is thought to
have died out around 100 bce. In
which country was it last sighted?
6. A now-extinct fierce predator from
the Ice Age was the what?
15. Dinichthys was a family of armored
fish that died out around 400 million
years ago. True or False?
16. What is the Red List?
17. Becoming extinct in the early
20th century, the thylacine is
also called the what?
18. An extinct African zebra that only
had stripes on half of its body is
known as a what?

7. Moschops was a giant plant-eating 19. Now extinct, one of the largest
animal that became extinct before flightless birds was found in
the dinosaurs even existed. True New Zealand. What was it called?
or False?
20. The glyptodon was a car-sized
8. How many times bigger than a mammal with armor plating that
great white shark was the now- died out after the Ice Age. What
extinct Megalodon? type of creature was it?

9. There have been no sightings of the

rain forest’s golden toad since 1989.
True or False?

10. The great auk was a Northern

Hemisphere equivalent of which
marine bird?

11. The Cape warthog is extinct in

which continent?

12. The big-eared hopping mouse

was last seen on Earth in 1843.
In which country was this?

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All about Horses
1. A draft horse with powerful hooves
derived from Scottish farm horses
is called what?
2. The great war horse of the Middle
Ages was the what?
3. Which horse’s bloodline can be
found in almost every modern
breed of riding horse?
4. The horse with the leopard-spotted
coat is called what?
5. American Indians were
responsible for breeding the
Appaloosa in North America.
True or False?
6. I am a rare and endangered
subspecies of wild horse found
on the steppes of Central Asia.
7. The “wild” American mustang
was once a domesticated horse.
True or False?
8. The British hackney horse
was considered well-suited
for pulling what?
9. Which famous riding school puts
on shows around the world with
Lipizzan horses?
10. Complete the name of this horse
breed: “Kentucky Mountain…”?
11. The Namib desert horse is the
only feral horse in Africa. True
or False?
12. The tarpan is an extinct subspecies
of wild horse. True or False?
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D I F F I C U LT
13. Which horse found in the
mountainous regions of western
Norway is “dun” in color?
14. A miniature horse is usually
34–38 inches (86–97 cm) in height.
True or False?
15. Which American breed is known for
its unique four-beat running walk?
16. This hard-working draft horse
has a chestnut color and is often
found in the east of England.
17. The Lokai is a mountain riding horse
bred in Mexico. True or False?
18. The Shire horse was often used
to pull wagons that delivered
ale to customers. True or False?
19. Which pony shares its name with the
region of Ireland it came from?
20. Which small pony is popular with
young riders and was made famous
by the Thelwell cartoons?
21. In which region of France are wild
horses still found?
22. A typical adult male horse has how
many teeth?
23. What name is given to a female
horse under the age of four?
24. What is a stallion technically?
25. Put these in the right order from
slowest to fastest: trot, gallop,
walk, canter.

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Poisonous Plants
1. Curare is a poison obtained from
plants. What did South American
hunters once use it for?
2. A single cassava tuber can contain
enough cyanide to kill a herd of
cows. What is it commonly used
for in South America?
3. Undercooked kidney beans can be
five times more poisonous than raw
beans. True or False?
4. Which part of the rhubarb plant is
poisonous to humans?
5. Atropa belladonna, one of the
most toxic plants around, is more
commonly known as deadly what?
6. Tomato plants belong to the highly
toxic nightshade family of plants
and are therefore poisonous.
True or False?
7. In ancient Greece, hemlock was used
as a poison for capital punishment.
Who was the most famous victim
of hemlock poisoning?
8. The plant that gave us digitalis as
a medicine is the poisonous what?
9. It is NOT possible for a human to
ingest enough poisonous apple seeds
to be fatal. True or False?
10. Which poisonous tree was used to
make longbows in medieval Britain?
11. In which comic book would you
find the villain Poison Ivy?
12. The seeds of the wisteria plant are
poisonous. True or False?
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13. Potatoes, especially wild potatoes,
contain chemicals that produce toxic
effects in humans. True or False?
14. In the Harry Potter stories, a potion
made from which real poisonous
plant is taken by werewolves to
maintain rationality and conscience.
15. The bulbs of which common garden
plant have been known to poison
humans mistaking them as onions?
16. Once it has trapped its prey, a Venus
flytrap contains a cocktail of poisons
that kill it. True or False?
17. Castor oil, used in food additives and
candy production, is produced from
castor beans. Which extremely
deadly poison is found in the beans?
18. The leaves and nuts of which
common tree are poisonous for
some animals?
19. Oleander is so toxic that a human
can be poisoned by eating honey
made by bees that have ingested its
nectar. True or False?
20. In the James Bond film Moonraker,
Hugo Drax cultivates poison from
which household plant?
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Insects and Spiders

1. Which is the only state where
termites do not live?
2. What is the scientific term for
molting or casting off an old skin?
3. The world’s largest butterfly has
a wingspan of up to 12 in (31 cm).
What is it?
4. What remarkable natural material
is produced from organs known
as “spinnerets”?
5. What name is given to the stage
in a butterfly’s life cycle between
caterpillar and adult?
6. The fruit fly is the one of the world’s
most-studied animals. What sort of
research is it used for?
15. Flies soften their food by spitting on
it and then ingest it with mouthparts
that work like a what?
16. Beetles, crabs, spiders, and
centipedes are all arthropods.
What does arthropoda mean?
17. Which group of insects is
distinguished by having
scaly wings?
18. When fully stretched, spider silk
has the equivalent strength of
what man-made material?
19. Which group of butterflies are the
fastest fliers?
20. What is an egg-laying bee called?

7. What food is given to the caterpillars

of the silk moth in silk farms?

8. What crop is attacked by the

infamous Colorado beetle?

9. What do the caterpillars of monarch

butterflies eat?

10. What stinging substance do ants

squirt in self-defense?

11. What familiar insects belong to

the order Coleoptera?

12. What purpose is served by

the long “tail” of the water
scorpion bug?

13. Why do raft spiders tremble their

legs on the surface of still pools?

14. What do stick insects eat?

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Mammal Mania
1. What is a young hare called?
2. By which other name is the
indri known?
3. What animal is traditionally used
to find the precious fungi known
as truffles?
4. What special name is given to the
otter’s den?
5. What is a “numbat”?
6. What unusual hunting method
is used by velvet worms to
immobilize prey?
7. Many bats are described
as crepuscular. What does
“crepuscular” mean?
8. Why are African sengis also
known as elephant shrews?
9. What escapee from English fur farms
became established in the wild but
was eradicated in the 1980s?
10. Which anatomical feature allows
squirrels to descend headfirst and
hang from their back feet?
11. What name is given to a stoat in
its white winter coat?
12. How many living species of
rhinoceros are there?
13. The word “rodent” comes from
the Latin verb rodere, describing
which action that rodents do well?
14. What food do gelada baboons
specialize in eating?
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15. The feisty African ratel goes by
what other common name?
16. What is the main difference
between mammal horns and antlers?
17. How does a chinchilla keep its
fine fur clean?
18. Lemmings are described
as subniveal animals. What
does “subniveal” mean?
19. The honey possum is an Australian
marsupial with a tongue shaped
like a brush. How much does the
male weigh?
20. Which domestic cat breed is
characterized by long fur and
a very flat face?
21. How long does it take to hard-boil
an ostrich egg?
22. How much milk does a baby blue
whale drink in a day?
23. Some primates, such as galagos and
bushbabies, frequently urinate on
their hands and feet. Why?
24. Antlers grow on both males and
females of which species of deer?
25. The hippopotamus produces a greasy
pink substance from pores in its
skin. What function does it have?
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Animal Challenge

1. What kind of fish is the 15. How big is the tardigrade or

freshwater burbot? water bear?

2. What kind of mammal is 16. How many species of snake

an aardwolf? are vegetarian?

3. Which family of fish do 17. What is the special name given to

humans eat most of? the rasping tongue of the mollusk?

4. What do scientists count to 18. Which other arthropod group

determine how old a fish is?
5. The goliath frog is the world’s
largest frog. How much do the
biggest specimens weigh?
are horseshoe crabs most closely
related to?
19. Which reptile was traditionally
most hunted for tortoise shell?

6. Which of these animals has the 20. Which is the world’s largest
best color vision: bumblebee, turtle, at up to 5 ft (5.5 m) long
dog, dolphin? and 1,500 lb (680 kg) in weight?

7. What is the collective term for

a group of tadpoles?

8. What kind of animal is

the quokka?

9. What kind of animal is a tuatara?

10. What is a zyzzyva?

11. How does the fire salamander

defend itself from attack?

12. What name is given to the

drumstick-shaped balancing
organs used by flies in flight?

13. If a fossorial animal burrows and

a natatorial animal swims, how
does a saltatorial animal move?

14. Bryozoans, or moss animals, are

minute colonial invertebrates.
Where do they live?

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Evolution Revolution

1. In which decade did the quagga
become extinct?
2. The beaks of which birds
particularly interested Darwin
on the Galápagos Islands?
16. Which of these is NOT a close
living relative of the elephant:
hyrax, dugong, monitor?
17. During which period did
pterosaurs live?

3. What were pterosaurs? 18. When was Charles Darwin’s

4. Darwin kept birds that he studied to
help him come up with his theories;
which species of bird were they?
5. Which other British naturalist
prompted Darwin to publish
his theory?
6. Which of these animals has evolved
the best eye: octopus, cat, human?
On the Origin of Species published?
19. The Coelophysis had a special
feature to help it be a light and
agile predator. What was this
special feature?
20. All the genes of a particular species
are known as the what?

7. How many chromosomes do

humans have?

8. Which scientist did experiments

on inheritance in pea plants?

9. DNA is a code using four bases;

which letters are used to represent
this code?

10. A change in DNA is known as

a what?

11. What were plesiosaurs?

12. “Hominidae” means what?

13. Which prehistoric era came first:

Carboniferous or Cambrian?

14. When did modern humans evolve?

15. What is it called when unrelated

species develop along similar lines
due to similar selection pressures?

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Social Animals
1. Which of these is NOT found in a
bee colony: worker, hunter, queen?
2. How many eggs can a queen
honeybee lay in a day?
3. Worker honeybees are always
female. True or False?
4. A group of gorillas is known as
a what?
5. About how many birds are in a
typical king penguin colony?
6. Which order of insects are the
highly social ants and bees?
7. Which of these mammals lives in a
similar way to ants and bees, with
a queen and workers: naked mole
rats, meerkats, beavers?
8. Locust birds are so called because
they congregate in massive flocks.
What is their correct name?
9. The individual animals that make
up a coral reef are known as what?
10. Leafcutter ants can emit squeaks
audible to the human ear. Why do
they do this?
11. Elephants can communicate
with very low-pitched noises
known as what?
12. What name is given to the
dance performed by honeybees
to indicate to their fellows the
direction of flowers?
13. What is the collective term for
a group of dolphins?
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14. Which of these is a strategy used by
groups of whales working together
to catch fish: line fishing, splash
herding, bubble netting?
15. Which ape has shown the greatest
aptitude for learning sign language?
16. What do ghost knife fishes use
to communicate?
17. Ant colonies have their own trash
dumps. True or False?
18. What are the names of chemicals
that trigger a behavioral response
in other individuals of the
same species?
19. Which social species of bird lives
in groups of up to 500?
20. What is a female-dominated society
known as?
21. For approximately how many days
does the average worker ant live?
22. The slavemaker ant steals the pupae
from other ant colonies to use as
ready-made slaves. True or False?
23. What is the average lifespan for
a healthy queen honeybee?
24. How does an ordinary worker
honeybee become the queen
of a colony?
25. Orcas hunt in a team.
True or False?
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Hunter and Hunted

1. Which of the following has the best 14. What do Texas horned lizards shoot
hearing: eagle, kestrel, barn owl? from their eyes when threatened?

2. Flying fish can glide at 63 mph 15. How far can a skunk shoot
(100 kmph) to escape predators. foul-smelling chemicals from
True or False? its anal glands?

3. How does a stonefish defend itself 16. Which spider uses a trip line to help
against predators? it catch prey?

4. What do some adult birds do to draw
hunters away from their young?
5. The porcupine fish can expand
its stomach to 100 times its
normal size when threatened.
True or False?
6. What does the armadillo lizard
do when threatened?
7. Which type of poisonous fish is
named after a feline?
8. Which insect is considered to have
the most painful sting?
17. What is the scientific name of the
relationship between clownfish and
sea anemones?
18. Which insects, in huge colonies,
have been known to attack and
eat much larger animals, such
as chickens?
19. What does a snapping turtle do
to attract prey?
20. Layers of cells called
chromatophores help some
animals to do what?

9. Belugas are well camouflaged for

life in the ice caps. What are belugas?

10. What do plaice do to aid

their survival?

11. Which of these animals was so

well camouflaged in coral that it
was not discovered for years?

12. Crypsis and mimesis are types of

camouflage. True or False?

13. Leafcutter ants grow their own

food, feeding exclusively on a
fungus that grows only within
their colonies. True or False?

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All about Birds

1. What is a male turkey called? 18. What is the smallest bird in Europe?

2. How fast can a roadrunner run? 19. What is a group of crows called?

3. How long can a flamingo live? 20. What is a group of

4. On which remote island can you
find the endangered pink pigeon?
5. The tawny frogmouth is a nocturnal
bird. What sort of call does it have?
6. To which group of birds does the
American chickadee belong?
7. What is a group of
budgerigars called?
8. What is the bony crest on the head
of some birds and reptiles such as
cassowaries and chameleons called?
9. What is the wingspan of the
wandering albatross?
nightingales called?
21. The comblike platelets used by
flamingos to sieve food particles
from water are called what?
22. Which sense does the kiwi use
to find food?
23. A group of herons is known as
a what?
24. An osprey’s diet mainly consists
of what?
25. The large ridge on the breastbone
of a bird is known as the keel.
True or False?

10. What kind of bird is a merganser?

11. Where might you find the

night parrot?

12. Which birds have males called

cobs and females called pens?

13. Which species of goose is the

ancestor of farmyard breeds?

14. What does a tufted duck eat?

15. How fast can an ostrich run?

16. Where does the wandering

albatross sleep during its
long journeys?

17. Which bird has claws on its wings?

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Amazing Adaptations
1. The elephant’s trunk is made up
of its what?
2. The animal with the most acidic
conditions in its stomach is the what?
3. If fish tend to have two-chambered
hearts and reptiles four-chambered
hearts, which group of animals
has three-chambered hearts?
4. The Syrian brown bear is actually
more cream-colored. True or False?
5. Brightly colored flowers attract
bees for what?
6. Which animals possess organs
called ampullae of Lorenzini?
7. Which group of animals is likely
to have hollow bones?
8. Some fish in Arctic waters would
freeze if they didn’t contain what?
9. Why do some ants sometimes
look after aphids?
10. Which animals use heat sensors
to find their prey?
11. How does a jerboa survive
without drinking?
12. Which mammal has the longest tail?
13. The pistol shrimp disables its
prey by what?
14. What is the function of a fish’s
swim bladder?
15. Giant pandas hold their food
between what?
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16. The bombardier beetle defends
itself from predators by what?
17. Why is the hoverfly coloration
black and yellow to mimic the
coloration of a wasp or bee?
18. Which answer is NOT a reason
why parrotfish produce a mucous
“sleeping bag” for themselves each
night: protection from parasites,
for warmth, to keep their scent in?
19. Which one of the following cannot
change its skin color: Arctic fox,
cuttlefish, chameleon?
20. Which of the following is NOT an
adaptation for predation: strong jaw,
wide cheekbones, all-around vision?
21. Two male birds displaying to a
female is a form of what?
22. In the relationship between
an anemone and a clownfish,
the anemone provides what?
23. The name given to the relationship
between two species where both
gain is what?
24. When an oxpecker removes ticks
from a giraffe, the relationships of
the oxpecker to the tick and giraffe
are, respectively, what?
25. In some frogs, young tadpoles
are herbivorous but then become
carnivores and even cannibals.
True or False?
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How Many?

1. How many quills does a North
American porcupine have?
2. How many purebred Scottish
wildcats remain in the wild?
3. What is the approximate strike
rate of a woodpecker drumming
on a tree?
4. The world’s largest bat colony is
at Bracken Cave in Texas. How
many Mexican free-tailed bats
live there?
5. The millipede has 1,000 legs.
True or False?
6. About how many species of insect
have scientists identified so far?
14. Most mammals have seven
bones in their necks. How many
does a giraffe have?
15. There were once about 30 million
bison in North America. By the
late 1800s, how many were left?
16. How many breeds of domestic dog
are there: about 200, 400, 600?
17. A desert locust swarm can
cover 460 sq miles (1,200 sq km).
How many locusts make up
such a swarm?
18. Sixty European starlings were
introduced to New York’s Central
Park in 1890. How many live in
the US now?

7. How many individual lenses 19. How many eggs can a queen
make up the large compound bee lay in a day?
eyes of a dragonfly?
20. Which plant family has the most
8. How many species of ladybugs known species (about 25,000)?
are there?

9. Despite being insects, some

butterflies only have 4 legs.
True or False?

10. The bristlecone pine is the

longest-living tree known.
How many years can one live?

11. The 50 trillion cells in a human

body are outnumbered how many
times by the bacteria in our guts?

12. How many toes does an ostrich

have on each foot?

13. How many eggs can a chicken

lay in 24 hours?

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Mad about Mammals

1. How long does it take an elephant 15. Which mammal has the
baby to develop in the womb? warmest fur?

2. Approximately how far across
deep oceans can the low-frequency
calls of great whales be tracked?
3. Which European animal did
early white settlers in Australia
mistake the wombat for?
4. Which land mammal has
the densest fur?
16. Black bears are always black
in color. True or False?
17. Which symptoms suggest a cow
is infected with the fluke
Schistosoma nasale?
18. Solenodons are large cousins
of moles and shrews. On which
two islands do they live?

5. The offspring of a male donkey 19. Which type of mammal are

and a female horse is a mule.
What is the offspring of a female
donkey and a male horse?
6. What is a baby alpaca called?
pudus and brockets?
20. The aardvark was named
by Afrikaans settlers. What
does “aardvark” mean?

7. The Mongolian wild horse is named

after a Russian, Nikolay Przhevalsky.
What was he?

8. Members of the Afrotheria animal

group live mostly in or originated
from Africa. True or False?

9. To which family of mammals

does the kinkajou belong?

10. What shape are the pupils in

the eyes of big cats?

11. How many species of bat are there?

12. Which is the smallest species

of rhinoceros?

13. In which continent would

you find the giant otter?

14. Which kind of marsupials typically

have backward-opening pouches?

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Animal Randomizer

1. Where do the legless reptiles known
as amphisbaenians normally live?
2. What does the Madagascan aye-aye
use to extract grubs from crevices
in dead wood?
15. Most golden hamsters now live in
captivity, but where did the species
come from originally?
16. The vicuña is thought to be the wild
ancestor of which domestic species?

3. What is a group of trout called? 17. Which breed of domestic cattle is

4. Which mammals have males known
as hobs and females known as jills?
5. In which habitat would you
look for kangaroos of the
genus Dendrolagus?
6. Which rhinoceros species has
only one horn?
7. What name is given to the fine wool
produced by the angora goat?
famous for its creamy milk?
18. What is the only part of a gazelle
carcass a hyena won’t try to eat?
19. What kind of animal is a gaur?
20. What name is given to a roosting
colony of fruit bats?
21. What term is used to describe the
deep energy-saving sleep that takes
place over winter?

8. What are male and female guinea 22. How many feet does a snail have?
pigs called?
23. What word is used for an animal
9. Where might you find the rare that walks on four legs?
red wolf?
24. The blood pigment hemoglobin
10. How many toes does a horse have gives the sludgeworm tubifex
on each foot? what color?

11. The colugo or flying lemur glides 25. Why do tortoises sunbathe?
from tree to tree on a web of skin.
How far can a colugo travel in
this way?

12. What is the scientific word for

the wing membrane of a bat?

13. What color is yak milk?

14. What is the scientific term for

an animal that walks with its
feet flat on the ground?

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Rain Forests

1. Which of these is NOT a type 14. Plants in rain forests release water
of rain forest: mangrove, into the atmosphere through a
chaparral, lowland? process called what?

2. How tall are the tallest
rain forest trees?
3. Which rain forest snake can
grow to 33 ft (10 m) in length?
4. What is the name given to
rain forest plants that grow on trees?
15. This type of rain forest plant has
a pool of water at its center that
acts as a habitat for animals such
as frogs. What is it?
16. The golden poison frog is
venomous. It contains enough
poison to kill how many people?

5. Which of these is NOT an 17. Are epiphytes plants or insects?

adaptation of a rain forest plant:
drip tip leaves, large leaves, 18. Montane rain forests can be
succulent leaves? found where?

6. What are lianas? 19. How many different species of

plant may be found living on one
7. Rain forest covers 6 percent of rain forest tree?
Earth’s surface; what percentage
of its species does it contain? 20. Which type of farming can
accelerate deforestation?
8. In 10 sq ft (1 sq m) of leaf litter, how
many species of ants have
been found?

9. The Amazon rain forest’s

biggest cat species is the
tiger. True or False?

10. How much rain forest is cut

down every minute?

11. Approximately what percentage

of today’s medicines are derived
from rain forest plants?

12. Which of these rivers would you

be in if a piranha were nibbling
your toes: Amazon, Ganges, Nile?

13. What does the pitcher plant

feed on?

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SPORTS &
LEISURE
SPORTS & LEISURE

Keep your brain active with these

lively quizzes covering a wide range
of everyone’s favorite sports.
Wrestling, swimming, golf, tennis,
baseball, track and field, skiing,
and much more to keep
your brain in shape.

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FIFA World Cup
1. Which nation has won both the
men’s and women’s World Cup?
2. Who won the World Cup in 2018?
3. By 2020, which country had won
the World Cup a record five times?
4. Who is the record scorer in a
single World Cup, with 13 goals?
5. Who was the team captain for
England when they won the
World Cup in 1966?
6. When was the first World Cup held?
7. Which is the largest soccer
stadium in the world?
8. The original World Cup trophy was
named after which administrator?
9. No African team has won the
World Cup. True or False?
10. Where was the 1994 World
Cup held?
11. The 1970 World Cup final was
held in which stadium?
12. By which name is Edson Arantes
do Nascimento better known?
13. Who played in the 1974 winning
team and also managed West
Germany to victory in 1990?
14. In which city did the 2018 World
Cup Final take place?
15. Who missed a penalty during
the opening ceremony for the
1994 finals, held in the US?
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16. Pelé was 17 when he first won
the World Cup. True or False?
17. Where was the 2014 World Cup held?
18. How many times has Italy won
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the World Cup?
19. How many times has Uruguay
won the World Cup?
20. Only 13 teams took part in the first
World Cup. Where was it held, and
who won?
21. The 2002 World Cup was held in
South Korea and where?
22. How many World Cup finals have
been won on a penalty shootout?
23. The year 2018 saw the
highest-scoring World Cup
final since 1966. True or False?
24. Which country has lost the World
Cup Final the most times?
25. Which country has appeared at the
World Cup Finals 8 times but never
advanced past the 1st round?
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Wrestling

1. What does “WWE” stand for? 16. Which country has won the most
Olympic wrestling gold medals?
2. When was the first
WrestleMania held? 17. What is the top weight class in
Olympic wrestling?
3. Which former heavyweight boxing
SPORTS & LEISURE

champ fought Stone Cold Steve 18. Who has the most championships
Austin in 2006? in WWE only?

4. Wrestling was included as an 19. “The Party Foul” is the signature

Olympic sport in the London move of which wrestler?
Games of 2012. True or False?
20. Sumo wrestlers purify the ring by
5. Complete the name of this wrestler: throwing salt before a bout begins.
Giant Hay… True or False?

6. What is Brett Hart’s nickname?

7. Which actor played the hero in the

2008 film The Wrestler?

8. Who was the first person to become

WWE Universal Champion?

9. The most popular Japanese form of

wrestling is called what?

10. Which British wrestler was famous

for wearing a mask he never took off?

11. Complete the full name of this

Olympic wrestling style: Greco–…

12. What is the real name of film star

and famous ex-wrestler the Rock?

13. What was the Rock’s

signature catchphrase?

14. Hulk Hogan was inducted into the

WWE Hall of Fame in which year?

15. Gorgeous George was a flamboyant

wrestler who influenced which
boxing champ?

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Track and Field

1. A standard 400 m racetrack has 16. Usain Bolt set the world 100 m record
eight lanes. True or False? in August 2009 with what time?

2. What do people in the UK call 17. How many events are there in
track and field? a decathlon?

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3. Usain Bolt ran for which country?
4. Who was the men’s world
pole-vault champion between
1983 and 1999?
18. At which Olympics did Kelly
Holmes win two gold medals?
19. The modern Paralympics joined the
Summer Olympics in which year?

5. Which track and field race involves 20. How often are the World Athletics
a water jump? championships held?

6. How many events are there in

a heptathlon?

7. Who ran the first

sub-four-minute mile?

8. What is the stick handed between

runners in a relay race called?

9. Complete the list of jumping events:

high, long, pole vault, and what?

10. Barack Obama is a former 100 m

national champion. True or False?

11. 26 miles, 385 yards (42.195 km) is

the distance for which event?

12. Bob Beamon held the world record

for 23 years in which event?

13. How many hurdles are there in

a 100 m race?

14. Long jumpers and triple jumpers

land in a pit filled with what?

15. Katerina Johnson-Thompson

specializes in which event?

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Baseball

1. Which team has won the most 15. In 2001, the Baltimore Orioles
World Series titles? retired the No. 8 jersey in honor
of which player?
2. What is the most common pitch
in baseball? 16. Which type of pitch will the pitcher
deliver if the ball is held off-center?
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3. Where did Babe Ruth start his

major league career?
4. Which major league general manager
is the subject of the New York Times
best-seller Moneyball?
17. How many times was Willie Mays
named Most Valuable Player?
18. Which player has a type of headfirst
slide named after them?

5. Mark McGwire holds the record 19. In which year did Ichiro Suzuki
for most home runs hit in a single win “Rookie of the Year” and
season. True or False? “Most Valuable Player”?

6. What is the name of the statue 20. Which writer pitched against the
outside Fenway Park in Boston? National League before the 1960
All-Star game?
7. In the film Bull Durham, which
actor portrays minor league
veteran “Crash” Davies?

8. Who holds the major league record

hitting streak of 56 games?

9. Joe Nuxhall was 15 years old when

he made his major league debut for
the Cincinnati Reds. True or False?

10. Who is the youngest ever player to

join the “500 home run club”?

11. What is the name of the Boston

Red Sox’s mascot?

12. Which team’s home is Turner Field?

13. Which country won the

inaugural World Baseball
Classic tournament in 2006?

14. Which country holds the most

Olympic gold medals for baseball?

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Olympic Games

1. How many rings are there on 16. What is the final event of the
the Olympic flag? men’s decathlon?

2. Which Olympic stadium was 17. What do the Olympic

nicknamed “the Bird’s Nest”? rings represent?

SPORTS & LEISURE

3. Which athlete won four gold medals 18. Including 2012, how many times
at the 1936 Games? has London hosted the Olympics?

4. How many countries took part in 19. Who lit the Olympic flame at
the 2008 Games? the 1996 Atlanta Games?

5. Who is Britain’s most 20. In which year were the modern

successful Olympian? Olympics first held?

6. Which city hosted the 2000

Olympic Games?

7. What are starting blocks used for?

8. The Olympic motto citius, altius,

fortius means what?

9. What were the prizes for ancient

Olympics winners?

10. The 1980 and 1984 Games were

marked by political what?

11. Horse racing used to be a modern

Olympic sport. True or False?

12. In 1984, Mary Decker tangled with

which opponent in the 3,000 meters,
before falling out of contention?

13. With what was the Olympic flame

lit at the 1992 Barcelona Games?

14. Which European city hosted the

first Olympic Games in which
women took part?

15. Which country hosted the

2016 Olympics?

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Hole in One

1. How many holes are there on a 18. The dimples in a golf ball are to
standard golf course? make it travel farther. True or False?

2. Eldrick Woods is better known by 19. Where can players practice their
his nickname of what? swing technique?
SPORTS & LEISURE

3. Where is the “home” of British golf? 20. The person who carries a player’s
golf bag and clubs is called a what?
4. Who won the Ryder Cup in 2018?

5. Golf is the only sport that has been

played on the moon. True or False?

6. What color is another name for a

putting surface?

7. Which club does a golfer usually

use to get out of a bunker?

8. Who was PGA Tour Player of the

Year in 2012, 2014, and 2019?

9. Links golf is traditionally played on

which geographical feature?

10. How is a game of golf started?

11. Where does former Masters champion

Bernhard Langer come from?

12. A score of one under par is

called a what?

13. Who won the US Open in 2019?

14. Who has won the most golf majors?

15. What color jacket does the winner

of the US Masters wear?

16. The modern game of golf originated

in which century?

17. A flag indicates the position of

what on a green?

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Gymnastics

1. Olga Korbut competed for the 14. Which female gymnast won
USSR at the 1972 and 1976 the gold medal for her vault
Olympics. True or False? in the 2016 Olympics?

2. Trampolining made its debut at 15. The pommel horse was first
which Olympics? introduced by the Romans to teach

SPORTS & LEISURE

3. The word “gymnastics” comes
from the Greek, meaning “to
exercise naked.” True or False?
4. Gymnast Mary Lou Retton
won how many medals
at the 1984 Olympics?
mounting and dismounting horses.
True or False?
16. In which position must trampolinists
begin and end their routines?
17. When did rhythmic gymnastics
become an Olympic sport?

5. Only women compete in artistic 18. A forward somersault with a half

gymnastics. True or False? twist is better known as what?

6. Who scored the first perfect 10,
at the 1976 Olympics?
7. When was gymnastics first included
as an Olympic sport?
8. Which piece of equipment is
suspended 19 ft (5.8 m) from the floor?
19. USSR and Russian gymnasts
hold the record for most Olympic
gold medals. True or False?
20. Whose nickname was “the
Sparrow from Minsk”?

9. Who won the gold medal for

his floor exercises in the 2016
Olympic Games?

10. Colored ribbons are used in

which exercises?

11. If a gymnast falls off a piece of

apparatus, what is the minimum
reduction in his or her score?

12. Which nation’s men’s team won

gold in the 2016 Olympics?

13. Great Britain won both gold and

silver medals in the pommel horse
event for men in the 2016 Olympic
Games. True or False?

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Anyone for Tennis?

1. How many sets do male players 15. The French Open is played on
have to win to win a match? what surface?

2. What is the maximum number 16. What is the line that runs parallel
of sets in a women’s match in the to the base line called?
Grand Slams?
SPORTS & LEISURE

17. What is a zero called in tennis points?

3. Who has won the most Wimbledon
men’s singles titles? 18. What is a tennis ball covered with?

4. The Australian Open final is held 19. The frame of a traditional racket
in which stadium? was made from what?

5. Who was the last British woman to 20. When players are tied at 40/40 in
win the Wimbledon singles final? a game, what is this score called?

6. Which official beginning with 21. Which current tennis player is

“U” controls a tennis match? nicknamed “the King of Clay”?

7. What is the name given to the
electronic line-judging device?
8. Which Grand Slam tournament
is held every January?
22. What does an ace mean?
23. What does an umpire say at the
end of a match to indicate that a
player has won?

9. Before Andy Murray first won
the men’s Wimbledon title in
2013, who was the last British
player to win the event?
10. Which “F” word does a line judge
shout when a serving player’s
footwork is illegal?
24. Billie Jean King played male
tennis player Bobby Riggs in
1973. Who won?
25. What do we call a shot in which
a player hits the ball before it
bounces on court during a rally?

11. Who is Serena Williams’s

tennis-champion sister?

12. To whom did Andy Murray lose

in the 2011 Australian Open final?

13. Martina Navratilova won how

many Grand Slam singles titles?

14. Which Grand Slam tournament

has the longest history?

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Boxing

1. What did ancient Greek boxers
protect their hands with?
2. What did ancient Roman boxers
wear around their hands?
14. Who suffered his first defeat in
1936 to the darling of the Nazi
party, Max Schmeling?
15. Which boxer won Olympic gold as
a middleweight and then went on to

SPORTS & LEISURE

3. When was boxing first included
as an event in the modern
Olympic Games?
4. What is another name for a boxer?
capture the heavyweight title twice?
16. Which fighters starred in the 1971
bout that was later known as the
“Fight of the Century”?

5. 1350 bce wall paintings from 17. The “Sound and Fury” was a
ancient Egypt show early boxers notorious match fought in 1997
in action. True or False? between which two fighters?

6. Who became the first great British 18. By which name was Walker
boxing champion in 1719? Smith Jr. better known?

7. Which fight became known 19. Which super middleweight fighter

as “the Bite Fight”? retired in 2008 with 46 wins, no
draws, and no defeats?
8. What are the rules first introduced
in boxing in 1867 called? 20. Who won 11 world titles at different
weights between 1946 and 1960?
9. World heavyweight champion
Rocky Marciano had 49
professional fights. How
many did he lose?

10. How old was George Foreman

when he became the oldest
heavyweight champion?

11. Which American president

advocated for boxing, especially
for those in the armed forces?

12. Which boxing class is

heaviest: flyweight,
bantamweight, featherweight?

13. Who was the heavyweight

boxing champion of Uganda
from 1951–1960?

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Unusual Sports Festivals
1. Where in the world do competitors
gather to throw a 22-lb (10-kg)
tuna as part of the annual
Tunarama Festival?
2. The World Sauna Championships,
SPORTS & LEISURE
which test how long one person
can withstand a 230ºF (110ºC)
sauna, are held in which country?
3. What do contestants carry in
a race at Olney that is said to
be 600 years old?
4. The annual Redneck Games
are held in the state of Georgia.
True or False?
5. In which country have the Bog
Snorkeling Championships taken
place every August for the last
25 years?
6. What are thrown in a peculiar
annual world championship
held in Finland?
7. In which year were the British
Lawn Mower Racing World
Championships created?
8. The Hell Blues Festival takes place
every year in which country?
9. What are the boats made from
in an annual regatta held in
Darwin, Australia?
10. The world record for Haggis
Hurling is 217 ft (66 m).
True or False?
11. Where does the World Stone
Skimming Championship
take place?
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12. Which sporting festival takes place
every October in the English market
town of Oundle, Northamptonshire?
13. Which type of food is rolled down
Cooper’s Hill in an annual festival
held in Gloucestershire, England?
14. What is the name of the food-fight
festival held in the town of Buñol
in Valencia, Spain?
15. One of the events in the annual
Cotswold Olimpick Games is
shin kicking. True or False?
16. There is no such thing as the
World Black Pudding Throwing
Championships. True or False?
17. In which English county is the title
of World Champion Toe Wrestler
fought for every year?
18. Dragon boat racing festivals have
been held for thousands of years.
How many team members are
allowed in each boat?
19. Men competing in a strange annual
Finnish sports race have to run
through grass, water, and sand
obstacles. What do they also have
to carry on their backs?
20. How many times has a human
won the 22-mile (35-km) Man
Versus Horse Marathon—held
in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales—
since its inception?
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Swimming
1. In which year did swimming
become part of the modern
Olympic Games?
2. In which Asian country was
swimming made compulsory
in schools by the 17th century?
3. Swimming champion Mark Spitz
came from Germany. True or False?
4. When was the butterfly
stroke developed?
5. An Olympic swimming pool is
164 ft (50 m) long. True or False?
6. How many main styles are there
in competitive swimming?
7. Which swimming move helps
increase the speed of a turn at
the end of the pool?
8. Who was nicknamed
the “Thorpedo”?
9. Who won the gold medal in
the 100 m breaststroke event
at the Rio Olympics in 2016?
10. The World Aquatic Championships
were first held in 1973. True or False?
11. Which country won every swimming
event in the 1948 Olympics?
12. Captain Matthew Webb of
England was the first person
to swim across the English
Channel by using the what?
13. At the 1900 Olympic Games, an
underwater swimming race was
introduced. True or False?
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QUIZ 281
14. For which swimming stroke is
diving off at the start not done?
15. Which two additional events
combine with swimming to
form a triathlon?
SPORTS & LEISURE
16. During which Olympics
were goggles first used in
swimming events?
17. Olympic swimming took place in
a pool rather than open water for
the first time in 1908. True or False?
18. In the individual medley event,
which stroke is used first?
19. Swimming has recently been
introduced at the Winter Olympic
Games. True or False?
20. Which swimming aid did
Benjamin Franklin invent?
21. In which year did the 10 km
open-water swim appear in
the Olympics?
22. Which of the four competitive
strokes usually produces the
slowest time?
23. Why was the Australian
women’s 4 x 200 m freestyle
relay team disqualified at the
2001 World Championships?
24. Swimmers can perform a tumble
turn when swimming breaststroke.
True or False?
25. Which swimmer holds the
all-time record for winning
the most Olympic gold medals?
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Skiing
1. Where did Franz Klammer win
the 1976 downhill gold medal?
2. Which Italian skier was the star
of the slalom and giant slalom in
the 1990s?
SPORTS & LEISURE
3. The origin of the word “ski” comes
from which language?
4. Downhill skiers can race at up to
what speed?
5. In how many James Bond films
does 007 ski?
6. Slalom skis are longer than downhill
skis. True or False?
7. In which city did Japan host the
1972 Winter Olympics?
8. What is the French word for a
marked ski run?
9. The longest indoor slope is in
which country?
10. Ski jumpers can leap distances of
up to 475 ft (145 m). True or False?
11. What is the name of the legendary
downhill course at Kitzbuhel?
12. Which ski resort was the venue
for the 2017 Alpine World Ski
Championships?
13. The Whistler Ski Resort is in
which country?
14. Janica Kostelic won 4 gold
and 2 silver Winter Olympic
skiing medals. What is
her nationality?
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15. What is the name of the long-running
BBC skiing highlights show?
16. How many gold medals did
Jean-Claude Killy win at the
1968 Winter Olympic Games?
17. The “snowplow” is a move
that can be performed on skis.
True or False?
18. Ski boots can be worn on either
foot. True or False?
19. In Europe, ski runs are graded
in four categories. Which is the
most difficult?
20. I was more famous for failure
than for being a great ski jumper.
But I was given a nickname that
suggested more success than I
ever had. What was it?
21. What is a twin tip ski?
22. What is the fastest type of skiing?
23. Which ski area in North
America was the first to host
the Winter Olympics?
24. Biathlon skiing includes rifle
shooting. True or False?
25. Which of these countries has a
ski slope: Lesotho, Morocco?
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Basketball
1. James Naismith, the inventor of
basketball, also introduced the
helmet into football. True or False?
2. In which year did basketball become
an Olympic sport?
3. How does a referee signal a
jump ball?
4. What was Michael Jordan’s jersey
number (now retired) when he
played for the Chicago Bulls?
5. Who is the NBA’s all-time leading
points scorer?
6. Which is the most successful team
in NBA history?
7. Which is the most successful British
men’s basketball team?
8. Who holds the NBA all-time record
for rebounds?
9. Which country won gold in the
women’s basketball tournament
at the 2016 Olympics?
10. Who holds the NBA all-time record
for playoff points?
11. When was the Women’s British
Basketball League founded?
12. Who is the shortest player to have
played in the NBA?
13. The circumference of the women’s
basketball is bigger than the men’s.
True or False?
14. Who has won the NBA MVP award
most often?
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QUIZ 283
15. The baskets are lower for women’s
basketball than they are for the
men’s game. True or False?
16. Leonardo DiCaprio, Demi Moore,
and Pete Sampras are all fans of
SPORTS & LEISURE
which NBA team?
17. Who invented the game in 1891?
18. Which was the first NBA team
to win more than 70 games in a
regular season?
19. How many NBA titles did Magic
Johnson win with the L.A. Lakers?
20. Which NBA MVP was
nicknamed “the Mailman,”
because he always delivered?
21. How many players are allowed on
court at the same time?
22. Which term describes an unblocked
shot that misses the basket, the rim,
and the backboard?
23. In which British city are the
Giants based?
24. Which new kind of shot did Joe
Fulks introduce in basketball in
one game in 1949?
25. When would a player be awarded
a free throw?
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 QUIZ 284 EASY

Famous Soccer Players in History

1. How old was Stanley Matthews 15. How old was Alan Ball when he
when he retired? played in the 1966 World Cup Final?

2. Jimmy Greaves scored 266 goals 16. Which former England goalkeeper
for which club? lost an eye in a car accident?
SPORTS & LEISURE

3. Which player was nicknamed 17. Liverpool is home to Liverpool and

“the Lion of Vienna”? which other club?

4. Tom Finney trained for which trade?
5. Billy Meredith signed for Manchester
United from which club?
6. Who was the captain for England in
the historic home 6–3 defeat by
Hungary in 1953?
7. Which Busby Babe survived the
Munich air crash to star for England
in the 1966 World Cup?
8. In which position did Tommy
Lawton mainly play?
9. In Len Shackleton’s autobiography,
what did he write for the chapter
“What the average director knows
about football”?
10. Len Shackleton was known as the
“Clown… of football”?
11. Which playing formation did
Herbert Chapman popularize
at Arsenal?
18. Sir Bobby Robson played for
Blackpool. True or False?
19. The 1982 FA Cup final went to a
replay. True or False?
20. Which club’s badge features
a reference to the Manchester
Ship Canal?
21. Which former Northern Ireland and
Manchester United player has an
airport named after him in Belfast?
22. What was Stanley
Matthew’s nickname?
23. When did Jimmy Greaves win his
first England cap?
24. For which country did Denis Law
win international caps?
25. Which Welsh player joined Juventus
in 1957 and was known as the
“Gentle Giant”?

12. Which club did Jimmy Hill manage

between 1961 and 1967?

13. Johnny Haynes was the first player

to earn how much per week?

14. Which club did Bobby Moore play

for in 1975?

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The Beautiful Game
1. In which year was Roy Hodgson
made the manager of England?
2. Which soccer player was named
Premier League Player of the
Year in 2019?
3. Which club did Robin van Persie
play for during the 2011/2012 season?
4. Brazilian Neymar moved from
Barcelona for a world-record fee
in 2017 to which club?
5. Which manager quit Barcelona
after losing in the 2012 Champions
League semifinal?
6. Who won the 2019
Champions League?
7. Who managed England in the 2018
World Cup finals?
8. The top league of German soccer
is called the Bundesliga. True
or False?
9. Which controversial technology
was first used in 2012?
10. Who became the owner of Chelsea
F.C. in 2003?
11. Inter and AC are clubs based in
which Italian city?
12. Which team did David Beckham
play for in 2011?
13. Which national team does Lionel
Messi play for?
14. Who is the most-capped England
goalkeeper of all time?
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QUIZ 285
15. Which English soccer club
did Cristiano Ronaldo play for
before moving to Real Madrid?
16. The 2016 European Championships
took place in Portugal. True
SPORTS & LEISURE
or False?
17. Who once said, “[Soccer] is a
simple game. Twenty-two men
chase a ball for 90 minutes and at
the end, the Germans always win”?
18. Who won the English Premier
League in 2015–2016?
19. The top soccer league in Spain
is called La Liga. True or False?
20. How many years was Arsene
Wenger the manager of Arsenal
Football Club?
21. Which Russian, nicknamed the
“Black Panther,” is widely regarded
as the greatest goalkeeper in the
history of soccer?
22. Which former Liverpool and
England player became the
manager of Rangers F.C.?
23. Who is the first person in Scottish
soccer history to win five league
titles as a player and a manager?
24. Which English soccer team used
to play at Maine Road?
25. Which nation won the first
World Cup?
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Winter Sports
1. Briton Amy Williams won Olympic
gold in 2010 in which event?
2. Which structure that is used in
extreme sports such as snowboarding
and skateboarding resembles a cross
SPORTS & LEISURE
section of a swimming pool?
3. The legendary Hahnenkamm
downhill ski course is in
which country?
4. The target zone in curling is
known as what?
5. Cross-country skiing is also
known as “Nordic” what?
6. The Winter Olympics were first
held in which year?
7. In which city did Torvill and
Dean win Olympic ice-skating
gold in 1984?
8. Which sport has been contested
at every Winter Olympics
since 1936?
9. The Cresta Run racing track is
located where?
10. Visors, gloves, and finger spikes
are worn in which Olympic sport?
11. Super G combines
downhill-style speed with
which other skiing discipline?
12. When was snowboarding first
included as a sport in the
Winter Olympics?
13. Which nation’s ice hockey team was
known as the Big Red Machine?
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MEDIUM
14. Ski-jump contests are measured
solely by distance achieved. True
or False?
15. Complete the name of this famous
Austrian skier: Franz K. …
16. An expert-graded slope in Europe
is denoted by which color?
17. Curling stones are traditionally
made from which rock?
18. Which Briton stole the ski-jumping
show in the 1986 Olympics?
19. Snowboarder Shaun White is
known as “the Flying” what?
20. Name the sport in which “body
checking” is allowed?
21. One minute may be added to a
competitor’s time for failing to
hit targets in which sport?
22. Which country has won the most
gold medals at the Winter Olympics
for speed skating?
23. Which Olympic sport has a
two-men and two-women variation?
24. Who won a gold medal for Great
Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics
and in which sport?
25. In ice hockey, which team won the
Stanley Cup in 2019?
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Tennis Challenge
1. The US Open is played where?
2. Who was the youngest man
to win the US Open, at age 19
in 1990?
3. What was the score in the final
set of the 2010 Wimbledon
match between John Isner
and Nicolas Mahut?
4. What word is used in tennis
for “zero”?
5. Which two players met in three
consecutive Wimbledon finals in
1988, 1989, and 1990?
6. In which Grand Slam event has
Rafael Nadal had the most success?
7. How many Olympic gold medals
has Andy Murray won?
8. What is the most
prestigious international
men’s team competition?
9. Which Czech-American won
94 men’s singles titles?
10. Who is the youngest player ranked
in the top 100 by the Women’s
Tennis Association?
11. How many weeks did Martina
Navratilova reign as women’s
world No. 1?
12. Ashleigh Barty comes from
New Zealand. True or False?
13. Which is the only Grand
Slam tournament played
on grass?
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QUIZ 287
14. Complete John McEnroe’s famous
on-court outburst: “You cannot be… ”
15. What is the name of a soft shot that
drops just over the net?
SPORTS & LEISURE
16. What is the women’s equivalent
of the Davis Cup?
17. In which year were the first
Wimbledon Championships held?
18. How high should a standard tennis
net be at the posts?
19. Most modern rackets are made
of what?
20. It is illegal to serve underarm.
True or False?
21. How many kilos of strawberries
are eaten at Wimbledon during
the tournament fortnight?
22. What is the “Venus Rosewater Dish”?
23. When was tennis first included as
a sport in the Olympic Games?
24. What is the minimum number
of points needed to win a tennis
tie-break?
25. What are the names of the American
identical twins who are the most
successful men’s doubles players
of all time?
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Water Sports

1. When did synchronized swimming
become an Olympic sport?
2. Which event features up to
25 “gates”?
SPORTS & LEISURE
14. The venue for the swimming
stage in the 2016 Olympics
triathlon was what?
15. In rowing, competitors cross
the finish line backward. True

3. Which British diver won bronze in or False?

the men’s synchronized 10 m
platform event at the 2016 Olympics?
4. The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race
starts at which bridge?
5. When did windsurfing become an
Olympic sport?
6. The swimming distance of 2.4 miles
(3.86 km) belongs to which form
of triathlon?
16. Synchronized diving made its
Olympic debut in which year?
17. How many players are there
on a water-polo team?
18. Water-skiing originated where
in 1922?
19. What are the two canoeing
disciplines in the Olympics?

7. Who partnered Steve Redgrave 20. Synchronized swimmers

to 1992 Olympic gold in the perform their routines to
coxless pairs? music. True or False?

8. A wishbone boom is a part of

which equipment?

9. Name the teams in the infamous

and violent 1956 Olympic Water
Polo semifinal.

10. Which diver hit his head on the

springboard in the 1988 Olympics
prelim rounds?

11. The modern pentathlon includes

swimming, running, and pistol
shooting. True or False?

12. Which stroke is used in the

pentathlon swimming event?

13. Tanya Streeter was a famous

competitor in skin diving.
True or False?

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Slam Dunking
1. Luol Deng was born in
which country?
2. Which team has “Sweet Georgia
Brown” for its theme tune?
3. How long did the USSR team take
to score the winning points in the
1972 Olympic basketball finals?
4. What are the initials of basketball’s
world governing body?
5. At the start of 2011, who held
the record as the NBA’s all-time
leading scorer?
6. In which position did Wilt
Chamberlain excel?
7. What is the panel behind a
hoop called?
8. What did Dennis Rodman wear in a
PR stunt for his autobiography?
9. FC Barcelona is a basketball team.
True or False?
10. John Amaechi played for which
team in the 2000–2001 season?
11. What is the optimum length of a
basketball court?
12. Which area of a basketball court is
sometimes called the “key”?
13. When was the decision
made to allow pros to play
in the Olympics?
14. In 1936, the I.B.F. proposed a rule
banning players taller than 6 ft 3 in
(1.9 m). True or False?
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QUIZ 289
15. Women’s basketball became an
Olympic event at which Games?
16. Larry Bird played for which team
as a pro?
SPORTS & LEISURE
17. How high from the ground is the
rim of the basket?
18. How tall is Houston Rockets star
Yao Ming?
19. Basketball is a contact sport.
True or False?
20. When did basketball become an
Olympic sport, and who won the
first game?
21. When was women’s basketball
included in the Olympics, and
who won?
22. Complete the name of this basketball
movie: White Men Can’t…
23. Who has played the most games in
his lifetime?
24. An NBA basketball game has four
quarters of how many minutes each?
25. How many substitutes are allowed
during the course of a game?
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Swimming

1. How long is an 13. Which innovation contributed

Olympic-standard pool?
2. Anita Lonsbrough won the
200 m breaststroke gold for
Britain at which Olympics?
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to 29 world records in the 2009
World Championships?
14. How long did Ben Lecomte
take to swim the Atlantic

3. What are the platforms called
from which swimmers dive in
competitive swimming?
4. The minimum depth for
an Olympic and World
Championship pool is what?
5. The flip turn is used in only
two of the four strokes in
swimming. Which are they?
unaided in 1998?
15. Which swimmer set new
Games records in the men’s
50 m and 100 m butterfly at the
2018 Commonwealth Games?
16. Who won a record seven gold
medals at the 1972 Olympics?
17. Who broke that record with
eight golds at the 2008 Games?

6. Under FINA rules, goggles may 18. Backstroke, breaststroke,

not be worn. True or False?
7. In 2015, at the age of 10,
who became the youngest
competitive swimmer in
World Championship history?
freestyle… Which stroke
completes the medley list?
19. How many gold medals did Ian
Thorpe win in the 2000 Sydney
Olympics (solo and team)?

8. Which world record did Katie 20. How many world records did
Ledecky (USA) set at the Thorpe set (solo and team)?
2016 Olympics?

9. What does the “NA” in

governing body FINA stand for?

10. The 14th World Swimming

Championships were held in
Shanghai. True or False?

11. Great Britain won a silver medal

in the men’s 4 x 200 m freestyle
relay at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
True or False?

12. Which endurance swim did

Sarah Thomas achieve in 2019?

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Rugby
1. What is the name of the Rugby
Union World Cup trophy?
2. Complete the name of this French
rugby union legend: Serge…
3. What is the mascot of RL
Wakefield Trinity Wildcats club?
4. In which year did the Barbarians
famously beat New Zealand 23–11
in Cardiff?
5. What specialty equipment do
players wear to protect their
mouths and teeth?
6. How many ways are there to
score in Rugby Union?
7. Who was the top try scorer in
the RL Super League in 2019?
8. England’s Jonny Wilkinson
kicked the 2003 World
Cup–winning drop goal with
his left foot. True or False?
9. When did the split between
Rugby League and Rugby
Union take place in England?
10. Who was the famous BBC
Rugby League commentator
in the 1960s and 1970s?
11. Which Rugby Union club plays
at the Stoop?
12. The Calcutta Cup is a competition
between which RFU nations?
13. Which team has won the Rugby
League Challenge Cup a record
19 times?
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QUIZ 291
14. What is Rugby League great
Martin Offiah’s nickname?
15. Which team won the Super
League Grand Final in 2019?
SPORTS & LEISURE
16. Welsh legend J. P. R. Williams
is also a qualified what?
17. Where did Wales play their
home RU matches before the
Millennium Stadium?
18. Whose autobiography is
titled Beware of the Dog?
19. The newly rebuilt Twickenham
stadium opened in which year?
20. Established in 1926, which
English rugby league side
plays at Wheldon Road?
21. Which nation joined the
Five Nations Championship
to make it six in 2000?
22. Kicking the ball while it is in
play in rugby is illegal. True
or False?
23. Which player was the first to score
200 tries in the RL Super League?
24. The Rugby League Challenge Cup
was first contested in which year?
25. Who is the leading try scorer in
All Blacks’ history?
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Olympic Gold

1. Ed Moses won 400 m hurdle 15. Alberto Juantorena won gold in

gold medals in which years? the 1976 400 m and 800 m for
which nation?
2. How long is the cross-country run
in the Pentathlon? 16. When were the games canceled
due to World War I?
SPORTS & LEISURE

3. When was the first Olympic-torch

relay run? 17. How high is the highest Olympic
diving platform?
4. When tennis was reintroduced in
1988 as an Olympic event, who 18. Rome hosted the Olympics
won the women’s gold? in which year?

5. Los Angeles held the Olympics
in 1984 and which other year?
6. What was Ben Johnson’s time in
the 1988 100 m final before he
was disqualified?
7. Who won 5000 m, 10,000 m, and
marathon golds in the 1952 games?
19. How many points are awarded
for hitting the inner gold circle
in archery?
20. Abebe Bikila won the 1960
Marathon running barefoot.
True or False?

8. “Clean and jerk” is a class in

which sport?

9. In 1980, which British swimmer

won gold in the 100 m breaststroke?

10. What is the nickname of Equatorial

Guinea swimmer Eric Moussambani?

11. Leni Riefenstahl’s film about the

1936 games was titled Olympia.
True or False?

12. What was the name given to

the USA’s all-star basketball
team in 1992?

13. Who won three gymnastics

golds in 1972?

14. What was the main stadium for

the 1908 games?

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F1
1. How many times did Juan
Manuel Fangio win the F1
world championship?
2. At which racetrack did Niki Lauda
suffer a near-fatal crash in 1976?
3. Which was the first purpose-built
F1 track?
4. How old was Sebastian Vettel
when he became the youngest
world champion in 2010?
5. Name the two American winners
of the F1 driver’s championship.
6. Slick tires will have zero grip in
which track condition?
7. What distinguished the 1976
Tyrrell P34 car?
8. What is Ferrari’s famous
racing symbol?
9. What Italian name is given
to Ferrari fans?
10. Ayrton Senna won how many
Grand Prix races?
11. The Monaco Grand Prix was
first held in which year?
12. The initials “BAR” stand for
which team?
13. Which Italian track was famous
for its banked bends?
14. A yellow warning flag means what?
15. Which modern Grand Prix is
raced at night?
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16. Michael Schumacher won the first
of his seven titles with which team?
17. Which form of engine, not used
since 1988, reappeared in F1
in 2014?
SPORTS & LEISURE
18. Which type of construction is the
Kurtis-Offenhauser racing car?
19. What is the record for the fastest
F1 pit stop, recorded in 1993?
20. The Monaco circuit includes the
slowest corner in Formula One.
True or False?
21. How fast can F1 cars travel while
qualifying for a race?
22. How many points are awarded to the
winning driver in a Formula 1 race?
23. How many times did
Michael Schumacher win the
F1 World Championship?
24. What were introduced to F1
cars in the 1960s to increase
aerodynamic downforce?
25. How many teams competed in
Formula 1’s debut season in 1950?
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It’s All about the Bike

1. Chris Boardman rode a bike 15. What does “KOM” mean?

manufactured by which sports
car maker? 16. What is a 100-mile bike
ride called?
2. In which race does the sprint leader
wear a pink jersey? 17. Which kind of bike is used for
SPORTS & LEISURE

off-road cycling?
3. How many gold medals did Chris
Hoy win at the 2012 Olympics? 18. What was the first “modern”
bike of 1886?
4. Which year was the first Tour de
France held? 19. What is the name for the
variable-ratio transmission
5. Which is a former name for the gearing used on many bikes?
Tour of Britain: Milk Race, Coffee
Tour, Round Britain Whizz? 20. In mountain-biking ratings, what
do two black diamonds mean?
6. Which mountain in the Tour de
France is named after the peak’s
often windy conditions?

7. Which cyclist dominated the classic

Milan–San Remo race in the 1960s
and 1970s?

8. How many cycling medals did

Team GB win at the Rio Olympics
in 2016?

9. Bradley Wiggins was first British

rider to win what in 2012?

10. How many gold medals did Laura

Trott (Laura Kenny) win in the 2012
Olympic Games?

11. What does “BMX” stand for?

12. In which cycling disciplines do

bikes have no brakes?

13. What color jersey does the leader

of the Vuelta a Espana wear?

14. In a road race, what is a “peloton”?

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A Game of Two Halves

1. Which British club won the
European Cup in 1967?
2. The pre-eminent club competition
in South America is called
the Copa what?
15. Gullit, Marco Van Basten, and
which other Dutch player completed
a famous trio at AC Milan?
16. José Mourinho succeeded whom
as Chelsea’s manager?

SPORTS & LEISURE

3. Emmanuel Adebayor played 17. What is the diameter of the
for which African nation? center circle?

4. Who was top scorer in the 1982 18. Which two teams play in the
World Cup Finals? Giuseppe Meazza?

5. The defensive strategy catenaccio 19. Until 2010, the English National
translates to what? Football Stadium was based where?

6. Which player has made the 20. What was Rio Ferdinand’s first
most appearances in Premier professional club?
League history?

7. Which Scottish club plays

at Pittodrie?

8. Which team plays at Estadio

da Luz?

9. Which team captain led France

to World Cup victory in 2018?

10. Alf Ramsey’s England side

in 1966 were dubbed the
“Wingless” what?

11. Who managed Barcelona in the

1986 European Cup final?

12. Who was the last Manchester

United player to win the Ballon
d’Or before Cristiano Ronaldo?

13. Jack Charlton managed which

side in the 1994 World Cup?

14. Ruud Gullit made his debut for

which Dutch club?

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American Sports
1. How many players are there on
a baseball team?
2. In which year was the first Super
Bowl played?
SPORTS & LEISURE
3. Which team won the first
Super Bowl?
4. On December 19, 2010, the New York
Giants beat the Philadelphia Eagles
by seven points. True or False?
5. Which sport do the Buffalo
Sabres play?
6. Who is the latest Major League
Baseball player to reach 3,000 hits?
7. At 7 ft 10 in (239 cm), Romanian
Gheorghe Muresan is the tallest
player in NBA history. True
or False?
8. In 1997, which golf pro was
the youngest male to be
Masters champion?
9. Who was the 2019 women’s US
Open tennis champion?
10. In which year was Michael Jordan
drafted by the Chicago Bulls?
11. Which African-American Olympian
won four gold medals for the US at
the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936?
12. The Vancouver Canucks shut out
the Boston Bruins in the final game
of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final.
True or False?
13. Which city does the Redskins
football team come from?
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14. In which year did Serena Williams
beat Venus Williams in the US
Open quarterfinals?
15. Which tennis player won the men’s
US Open in 1990, becoming the
youngest-ever champion?
16. Barry Bonds broke Roger Maris’s
record for the most home runs hit
in a season. True or False?
17. How many perfect games were
thrown in the 2012 Major League
Baseball season?
18. Which was the first
American city to host the
Summer Olympic Games?
19. In which sport is it sometimes said
the term “home run” originated?
20. In 1972, which football team
hired the first professional
cheerleading squad?
21. Which was the first South American
city to host the Olympic Games?
22. Which team won the Super
Bowl in 2020?
23. Which two American women
skaters had a battle on and off
the ice rink in 1994?
24. Where is the Astros baseball
team from?
25. Which game do the Detroit
Pistons play?
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Sports Records

1. Jade Jones won gold medals for
Great Britain in both the 2012 and
2016 Olympics. Which sport does
she compete in?
2. At which Olympic Games was
13. Which NFL quarterback holds the
record for most passing yards in a
single season?
14. In 2012, London became the first
city to host the modern Olympics

SPORTS & LEISURE

women’s boxing included for the for the fifth time. True or False?
first time?
15. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway
3. Which baseball player holds the is the largest sporting venue in the
record for the most consecutive world. At maximum capacity, how
games in a career? many people can it hold?

4. A marathon was once run in under
two hours. True or False?
5. After retiring from professional
cycling, which other sport did
Bradley Wiggins briefly try
to make a career in?
6. How quickly did Larry Lewis,
the world-record holder for
runners 100 years or older,
run the 100-yard dash?
7. What is the world-record time
for the mile run?
8. Which WWE superstar did Tyson
Fury wrestle in 2019?
16. At his peak, how much did
Konishiki Yasokichi, the world’s
heaviest sumo wrestler, weigh?
17. In which sport do competitors refer
to “catching a crab”?
18. More than 5,000 single strokes have
been recorded in one squash rally.
True or False?
19. In which sport do competitors use
equipment known as a “foil”?
20. What is the approximate
distance run by a midfielder
during a soccer game?

9. Ken Bradshaw surfed the tallest wave

yet recorded in 1998. How tall was it?

10. Which NFL team has won the most

Super Bowl trophies?

11. Who is the last non-British, non-

German Formula 1 driver to win
the World Driver’s title?

12. How many gold medals did US

swimmer Michael Phelps win
at the 2008 Olympics?

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Surfing

1. What word is used to describe a 16. What name is given to the legendary
fall from a wave? pipeline break off Oahu?

2. Complete the name of this surfing 17. Women are not allowed to surf
trick: “Hang…” competitively. True or False?
SPORTS & LEISURE

3. Complete the name of this classic 18. What is the name of a famous
surfing film: Big… Hawaiian surfing island?

4. Which kind of surfer is a “Hodad”? 19. What do surfers apply to their

boards to improve performance?
5. Which coast is famous for surf
in Australia? 20. Which word beginning with “T”
describes the wave feature that
6. The European expedition that surfers aim to speed through?
first encountered surfing in Tahiti
was led by which seafarer?

7. Who has won the ASP World

Surfing title 11 times?

8. The famous Waikiki surfing beach

lies close to which city?

9. Which town is a hub for surfing

in England?

10. Chris Martin of Coldplay is

an avid surfer. True or False?

11. Surfers Paradise is in

which country?

12. Which band recorded the album

Surfer Girl?

13. Who plays the leader of the

bank-robbing surfer gang in
the film Point Break?

14. Surfing is an Olympic sport.

True or False?

15. Jeffreys Bay is a famous surf

beach in which country?

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Diving

1. Which professional diver famously 13. In which year did diving

hit his head on the springboard in become an Olympic event?
the 1988 Seoul Olympics?
14. As what was Olympic platform
2. What are the two disciplines in diving first known?
Olympic diving?

SPORTS & LEISURE

15. Which country has won more
3. When did synchronized diving 10 m platform-diving Olympic
become an Olympic event? golds than any other?

4. In which is a diving accident most 16. A diver’s splash on entry affects

likely: deep or shallow water?
5. The highest platform in Olympic
diving is 33 ft (10 m). True or False?
6. After which Olympic Games was
plain high diving discontinued?
7. Solomon Islander Alex Wickham
set the record for a high dive at
205 ft (62 m) in 1918. True or False?
8. The impact of Alex Wickham’s
world-record 205-ft (62-m) high
dive ripped off his bathing suit
and knocked him unconscious.
True or False?
9. Shallow diving is an extreme
sport that involves diving from
the greatest height into the
shallowest depth of water.
True or False?
his or her score in professional
diving. True or False?
17. When a diver enters the
water without a splash,
this is called what?
18. In which position should the
body enter the water during
a professional dive?
19. How many Olympic Gold medals
did US diver Greg Louganis win
during his career?
20. A diver takes off in the forward
position but then reverses the
spin toward the board. What
is this dive called?

10. In which awkward dive does the

abdomen and chest bear the impact?

11. In which country do the La

Quebrada Cliff Divers dive
125 ft (35 m) into the sea?

12. Who won a gold medal in the

3 m springboard event at
the 2012 Olympic Games?

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NFL

1. Which country hosted the first 15. Which city has held the Super
regular NFL season game to be Bowl most often?
held outside the US?
16. Which coach has made the most
2. How many yards is a false Super Bowl appearances?
start penalty?
SPORTS & LEISURE

17. How long is a regulation

3. Who holds the NFL record for NFL football?
quarterback sacks?
18. Who is the only NFL player to
4. Who is the only player to appear in have a star on the Hollywood
the NFL and CFL halls of fame? Walk of Fame?

5. Who holds the NFL all-time 19. Which player has won the Super
record for touchdowns? Bowl MVP most times?

6. In what year was the NFL formed? 20. Which was the first NFL team
to have cheerleaders?
7. What part of NFL uniform are
the cleats worn?

8. The mascot of the Baltimore Ravens

is named Poe, after the writer Edgar
Allan Poe. True or False?

9. Who holds the NFL all-time record

for touchdown passes?

10. Which is the highest-grossing

football movie of all time in
the US?

11. The Dallas Cowboys are the most

valuable sports franchise in the
world. True or False?

12. Which NFL team plays at the

venue Soldier Field?

13. What is the highest number of

fumbles recorded by one player
in a single game?

14. Which is the most successful team

in the history of the Super Bowl?

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Soccer’s Top Prize

1. Which name was used for the 13. Which is the only year in which
World Cup Trophy before it was the previous winner did not
named in honor of Jules Rimet? open the tournament?

2. How many times has England 14. Who scored the most goals during
hosted the World Cup? the 1966 World Cup?

SPORTS & LEISURE

3. How many countries have won the
tournament a total of five times?
4. Cameroon’s Roger Milla is
the oldest player to have scored
a goal at the World Cup. How
old was he when he scored his
last goal in 1994?
5. Which country has had
the most red cards since the
tournament began?
15. The most goals scored in a single
World Cup by a single player is 19.
True or False?
16. In which year was the first World
Cup tournament held?
17. How many times has New Zealand
won the World Cup?
18. Who won the first World
Cup tournament?

6. No European team has won a 19. Which country hosted the

World Cup played outside Europe. 2018 tournament?
True or False?
20. How many of the tournament’s
7. Which is the only country to 32 teams are from Europe?
appear in the knockout stage
of every tournament?

8. Which is the only host country to

be eliminated in the first round
of the tournament?

9. Which country has had the most

success in penalty shootouts?

10. Which two teams played the

first-ever World Cup match
in 1930?

11. What is the highest-ever score

in a World Cup match?

12. How many times has France

lifted the trophy?

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Extreme Sports Challenge

1. Parkour originated in which country?
2. Which kind of turn do parachutists
perform to land at high speed?
3. Waves in big-wave surfing can be
SPORTS & LEISURE
16. When a surfer crashes, it’s called
a what?
17. For how long did free diver Peter
Colat hold his breath in a dive in
February 2010?

up to what height?
18. In kiteboarding, which term is
4. Free climber Alain Robert suffers used to refer to a “very early
from vertigo. True or False? morning session”?

5. Who won the first Monster Energy 19. Bungee jumping is illegal in
Cup championship in 2011? the US. True or False?

6. Iconic 1970s skateboarder Tony 20. What is the main objective of

Alva’s nickname is what? wingsuit flying?

7. The world’s first permanent bungee-
jump site is in which country?
8. The Dangerous Sports Club
was based in which English
university city?
21. What is the name of the sport
where competitors roll downhill
inside an orb?
22. Which extreme sport is similar
to tightrope walking?

9. White-water rafting is a 2012 23. Vertigo bungee is an extreme

Olympic sport. True or False? sport. True or False?

10. How fast can speed skiers travel? 24. What power does a kiteboarder
use to move?
11. What does the “B” in BASE
jumping stand for? 25. When do the X Games take place?

12. How many times was Björn

Dunkerbeck World PWA
Windsurfing Champion?

13. The initials “MTB” stand for what?

14. Who was the first woman to

climb the north face of the
Eiger in the Alps?

15. Hanggliders utilize which

weather feature to stay airborne?

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Sports Records

1. By turnover, which football club
was the richest in 2018–2019?
2. The world high-jump record of
8.04 ft (2.45 m) was set in 1993
by which athlete?
13. Andy Green broke the world
land-speed record in 1997 in
a vehicle called what?
14. The women’s marathon world
record is faster than the men’s.

SPORTS & LEISURE

3. Which is the world’s richest
horse race?
4. In 2011, the world-record distance
for a hole in one in golf was what?
5. In 2009, Usain Bolt broke the
100 m and 200 m world records.
True or False?
6. As of 2011, who was the leading
points scorer in Welsh International
Rugby Union?
7. By 2011, the New York Yankees
had won the World Series how
many times?
8. Henry Cooper was the first
(and, as of 2020, the only) boxer
to win a Lonsdale Belt three
times. True or False?
True or False?
15. In 1962, Wilt Chamberlain achieved
a record number of points for an
NBA game. How many did he score?
16. Which constructor has won the most
F1 Grand Prix?
17. The world’s fastest go-kart can
reach speeds of up to what?
18. The clean-and-jerk world
weightlifting record was set
at which Olympics?
19. The men’s world hammer record
distance is shorter than the javelin.
True or False?
20. What is the record for the highest
dive from a diving board?

9. As of 2011, which NFL team had

won the Super Bowl six times?

10. The 4 × 100 m men’s swimming

medley world record was set in
2009 by which country?

11. Bob Beamon held the world

long-jump record for how
many years?

12. Who was the first—and, to date,

the only—man to win the tennis
Grand Slam twice?

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Sailing

1. Joshua Slocum was the first person
to sail around the world single-
handed. True or False?
2. Zig-zagging through the eye of the
wind to change direction describes
SPORTS & LEISURE
15. In 2016, Thomas Coville sailed solo
around the world in how many days?
16. The America’s Cup was first won
by which country other than the
US in 1983?

which maneuver?
3. Name the type of boat that features
two parallel hulls of equal size.
4. In which year did Robin
Knox-Johnston become the
first person to circumnavigate
the globe nonstop?
5. Bruno Peyron and his crew won
which prize in 2005?
6. How many sailing events were held
at the 2016 Olympics?
7. The Fastnet Race takes place over
how many nautical miles?
8. What was the name of Sir Francis
Chichester’s famous yacht?
9. How many Olympic gold medals
has Ben Ainslie won?
10. A “yngling” is a cross between
a planing dinghy and a what?
17. What is a rudder used for?
18. The America’s Cup dates back
to which year?
19. Which sailor was capsized for five
days during the 1997 Vendée Globe?
20. On a sailboat, what is a sheet?
21. The large, often colorful triangular
sail used when the wind is coming
from behind is called a what?
22. What is a tiller used for?
23. What is the main body of a
boat called?
24. Which type of sailing yacht was
the original America, which gave
its name to the America’s Cup?
25. A trimaran has four hulls.
True or False?

11. Which record did Ellen Macarthur

set in 2005?

12. In which yacht did PM Edward

Heath win the 1971 Admirals’ Cup?

13. When was sailing included on an

Olympic program for the first time?

14. What is a “halyard”?

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Motorsports
1. Who holds the record for all-time
most pole positions in F1 racing?
2. Motorcycling was a competitive
event at the 1908 Olympics.
True or False?
3. Engine capacity in MotoGP is
limited to what?
4. Drag races are usually held over
what distance?
5. The Le Mans 24 Hours race was
first held in which year?
6. By 2019, how many motorcycling
world constructor titles had
Honda won?
7. In which year did Barry Sheene
win the Motorcycle Grand Prix
World Championship?
8. Which former F1 driver is known
as “the Flying Scot”?
9. Colin McRae won the world rallying
championship in which year?
10. How many times did McRae’s
father Jimmy win the British
rally title?
11. The “S” in NASCAR stands
for what?
12. The Borg-Warner Trophy is awarded
to the winner of which race?
13. Porsche won the Le Mans 24 Hours
race how many times in the 1980s?
14. Who is the only man to win motor
racing’s Triple Crown?
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QUIZ 305
15. Valentino Rossi won the 2009
world motorcycle title on which
make of bike?
16. Which character did Steve McQueen
play in the 1971 film Le Mans?
SPORTS & LEISURE
17. Whose autobiography is titled
Winning is not Enough?
18. “ATV” stands for what?
19. The most famous TT race takes
place on which island?
20. The waving of the French flag
is used to start the Le Mans 24
Hours. True or False?
21. How many times has Lewis
Hamilton won the Formula 1
World Championship?
22. Approximately how many cars
compete in Le Mans every year?
23. What was the color of the first
Indian motorcycles?
24. In which year was NASCAR
founded?
25. What is the corporate color for
Kawasaki motorcycles?
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Opening Overs

1. What is an umpire signaling 15. Andrew Flintoff captained England

if he stands with both arms in the victorious 2010–2011 Ashes
out horizontally? series. True or False?

2. Which side won the first Cricket 16. Who has scored the most runs for
World Cup in 1975? England in Test Match cricket?
SPORTS & LEISURE

3. The Big Bash League is based in 17. Which cricket team is known as
which country? the Black Caps?

4. Who scored a record 501 not out
for Warwickshire in 1994?
5. What are the horizontal pieces
of wood on top of the cricket
stumps called?
6. The initials “MCC” stand for what?
18. In which country is the IPL played?
19. What ground has been the “home”
of English cricket since 1787?
20. What name is given to the
Test series between England
and Australia?

7. In which year did Ben Stokes make

his Test debut for England?

8. West Indies captain Clive Lloyd

was nicknamed what?

9. The Brisbane Cricket Ground is

also known as what?

10. A batsman can be out in 10 ways.

True or False?

11. Who hit a record six sixes in

one over in 1968?

12. Who partnered Jeff Thomson

in the Australian pace attack
of the 1970s?

13. Which team won the ICC Cricket

World Cup in 2019?

14. Which cricketer has been called

by these different nicknames:
The Big ’Un, the Old Man, the
Champion, and the Doctor?

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Horse Racing
1. Who rode Desert Orchid to
Cheltenham Gold Cup victory
in 1989?
2. The film Champions relates
the real-life success of which
Grand National–winning horse
and jockey?
3. What is the course distance
of the Epsom Derby?
4. How many times did Lester
Piggott win the Epsom Derby?
5. The Kentucky Derby is not
open to geldings. True or False?
6. The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe
is run at which course?
7. Willie Shoemaker’s nickname
was what?
8. Which type of horse race is the
Melbourne Cup?
9. How many times did Red Rum
win the Grand National?
10. Who was the Grand National’s
winning jockey in 1981?
11. In which year did Phar Lap win
the Agua Caliente Handicap?
12. Which horse won both the 2018
and 2019 Grand National races?
13. Which English artist is
recognized as the pre-eminent
painter of horses?
14. The famous Il Palio is held in
which Italian city?
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QUIZ 307
15. Thoroughbred racehorses can
trace ancestry to just three
Arabian stallions. True or False?
16. Where is the Sha Tin racecourse?
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17. Newmarket, the home of English
racing, is in which county?
18. Which horse mysteriously fell
just yards from winning the
1956 Grand National?
19. In which year did the first woman
jockey ride in the Grand National?
20. The Kiplingcotes Derby is the
oldest horse race in the world.
True or False?
21. Horse-racing jackets and helmets
are known as what?
22. Which father and son trained
and rode the winning horse in
the 2000 Grand National?
23. The queen has her own
thoroughbred breeding stud.
On which of the Royal Estates
is this situated?
24. Jockey Frankie Dettori famously
won 7 out of 7 races at which race
course in 1995?
25. Which English king rode in
several races at Newmarket?
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1. How old was Tiger Woods
when he won his first
professional major?
2. Which course has hosted the
most US Open tournaments?
SPORTS & LEISURE
3. In which year did Brooks Koepka
win his first major?
4. How many dimples are there
on a regular golf ball?
5. Who won the 2019 Women’s
British Open?
6. Despite playing golf left-handed,
Phil Mickelson is actually
right-handed. True or False?
7. Since 1979, how many Ryder
Cup tournaments has the United
States won?
8. Which player holds the record
for PGA Tour career wins?
9. Which major has Rory McIlroy
not won?
10. Tom Watson won how many
consecutive PGA Player of the
Year awards?
11. How old was Raymond Floyd
when he became the oldest
player to finish second in
a Masters?
12. Holes 11, 12, and 13 at Augusta
National are known as what?
13. Which nationality is Inbee Park,
the youngest winner of the
US Women’s Open?
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Golf
14. Which golfer was nicknamed
“the Walrus”?
15. Which player has accrued the
most points in the history of
the Ryder Cup?
16. Tiger Woods won all five of
his matches in the 2009 Presidents
Cup. True or False?
17. What is the average hitting distance
for a 3-wood golf club?
18. Who was the USA team
captain in the first five Ryder
Cup tournaments?
19. Which player holds the record
for most Masters victories?
20. In which year did Europe first
compete against America in the
Ryder Cup?
21. Which PGA Tour golfer was
hospitalized after injuring himself
with his own putter?
22. Which course has been used
more often than any other for
the Open Championship?
23. What is the maximum number
of clubs a player is allowed to
carry in a golf bag?
24. In which year was the first round
of women’s golf played?
25. The first golf balls were made
of feathers wrapped in leather.
True or False?
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Formula One

1. The “K” in KERS stands for what?
2. Who was the first Australian to
win the F1 World Championship?
3. How many points are awarded to
15. With which team did James Hunt
begin his F1 career?
16. Which car did Mario Andretti
drive for his 1978 F1 title?

SPORTS & LEISURE

the winning driver in a Formula
One race?
4. Which American track held F1
races between 1961 and 1980?
5. Prior to 2011, which was the last
year in which a woman attempted
to qualify for a Grand Prix?
6. Formula One cars travel at speeds
of up to 220 mph (350 kmph).
True or False?
17. How many drivers can each
Formula One team use in
one season?
18. Cockpit temperatures in an F1
race car can reach 140ºF (60ºC).
True or False?
19. Lewis Hamilton’s first Grand Prix
race win was in which country?
20. What does the “P” on the pit
board indicate?

7. Ferrari was originally a works

team for which manufacturer?

8. Who was Renault’s driver for their

and his first world championship?

9. How many times will a driver

change gear in an average race?

10. How many races did Ligier win

between 1976 and 1996?

11. Jaguar Racing placed what in the

nose cones of their cars in the 2004
Monaco Grand Prix?

12. How many Grand Prix races did

Alain Prost win?

13. For which team did Juan Fangio

and Stirling Moss both race in 1955?

14. The 1960 Ferrari D246 was the

last front-engined car to win a
Grand Prix. True or False?

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Soccer

1. With which club did Harry Redknapp 15. The 2018 World Cup final was
begin his managerial career? played in which stadium?

2. Who managed Brazil in the 2018 16. Who managed Hungary to the 6–3
World Cup? defeat of England in 1953?
SPORTS & LEISURE

3. The Kop at Anfield is named after 17. Which striker to date has scored
which Boer War battle? the most goals for Italy?

4. The laws of the game were first 18. “Viola” is the nickname of which
devised in which year? Italian club?

5. Which club side was formed as
an arm of the Yugoslav Army
in Belgrade?
6. Diego Maradona won two World
Cup winner’s medals. True or False?
19. When was the Dutch Eredivisie
league founded?
20. Which 14th-century English king
banned soccer?

7. Which English club’s motto is

Nil satis, nisi optimum?

8. Who was the first England player

to reach 100 caps?

9. For which US team did Wayne

Rooney play in 2019?

10. How far is the penalty spot from

the goal line?

11. Goalkeeper Dave Beasant once

severed a tendon by dropping what
onto his foot?

12. Manchester United has played

home games at Maine Road.
True or False?

13. Which German striker was

nicknamed “Der Bomber”?

14. Spain’s Copa del Rey competition

was known as what during
Franco’s dictatorship?

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Boxing Clever

1. Whom did Mike Tyson beat to win
his first world heavyweight title?
2. Who was the last British world
heavyweight champion before
Lennox Lewis?
16. The person who advises a boxer
during a fight is called a corner
man. True or False?
17. How old was Muhammad Ali
when he first regained his world

SPORTS & LEISURE

heavyweight title?
3. Which body governed British
boxing until 1929? 18. The common weight for a
competition glove is how
4. Who was Cassius Clay’s first many ounces?
opponent as a pro?
19. Boxing was never part of the
5. Who was known as “the ancient Olympics. True or False?
Clones Cyclone”?
20. What does “TKO” stand for?
6. Whose nickname was “Manos de
Piedra” (“Hands of Stone”)?

7. Where was Charlie Magri born?

8. How many times did Sugar

Ray Robinson win the world
middleweight title?

9. What was Sugar Ray Robinson’s

real name?

10. Which British promoter survived

a murder attempt in 1989?

11. What is the name of Emanuel

Steward’s famous Detroit gym?

12. What are left-handed boxers called?

13. What part or parts of Evander

Holyfield’s body did Mike Tyson
bite in the 1997 fight?

14. Henry Cooper never won a world

title. True or False?

15. Boxer Rocky Graziano was known

for which boxing skill?

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Running

1. What should a runner ideally eat for 13. Who is the first-known marathon
breakfast before a marathon: oatmeal runner in history?
and honey, baked beans, fried eggs
and bacon, nothing? 14. How is a runner’s pace calculated?

2. Who broke the women’s marathon 15. What is running cadence?

SPORTS & LEISURE

world record in 2019 with a time

of 2:14:4?
3. When was the first Olympic
marathon of modern times?
4. According to the Oxford English
Dictionary, how many meanings
does the word “run” have?
5. Who won the women’s 100 meter
in the 2016 Olympic Games?
6. How many runners (approximately)
have run in recent London
marathons?
7. The steeplechase combines the
skills of distance running, hurdling,
and long jumping in one race.
True or False?
16. Where is the world’s highest
marathon held?
17. On average, how many calories
does a person burn during an
hour of jogging?
18. What is the main difference in gait
between running and walking?
19. After several heart procedures,
which US president famously
took up jogging?
20. What causes sore muscles
after running?

8. Based on the number of

participants, what is the world’s
largest running race?

9. People suffering from patellofemoral

pain syndrome have pain where?

10. Today’s marathon distance

is 26.2 miles. When was this
distance first set?

11. Who ran the first

sub-four-minute mile?

12. Who set the men’s marathon

world record in 2018 with a
time of 2:01:39?

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From Surf to Turf: Australian Sports

1. The Australian national women’s 16. The AFL best and fairest player
netball team is nicknamed what? is awarded which medal?

2. Which team won the 2019 17. How many teams compete from
AFL premiership? Australia in the A-League?

SPORTS & LEISURE

3. Who won the 2019 Melbourne Cup?
4. The day of the Melbourne Cup
is a public holiday in Victoria.
True or False?
18. What was Sir Donald Bradman’s
batting average?
19. Who won the 2019–2020 Women’s
Big Bash League?

5. The Sydney–Hobart yacht race 20. Which Australian won the

begins on which day? Women’s Singles tennis title
in the 2019 French Open?
6. Who was the captain of the
Australian cricket team in
summer 2019?

7. Who won the 2020 men’s singles

title at the Australian Open?

8. Which teams entered the AFL

competition prior to the Gold
Coast Suns?

9. How many field umpires

officiate an AFL game?

10. Who competes against NSW

in the State of Origin series?

11. How many times has Australia

hosted the Olympic Games?

12. Where is the Bathurst 1000 raced?

13. In which state capital is the

Australian F1 Grand Prix held?

14. Cycling’s Tour Down Under is

held in which Australian state?

15. The main race at the Stawell Gift

is over how many meters?

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Medieval Sports

1. What is the medieval ancestor of 14. Which country began medieval

ten-pin bowling? mock battles called carrousels?

2. Which modern game does 15. The modern sport of bowls was first
the medieval stoolball most developed in the Middle Ages. True
closely resemble? or False?
SPORTS & LEISURE

3. Which of these is a stick-and-ball 16. How many arrows could a medieval

game of Gaelic origin: lacrosse,
badminton, hurling?
4. Today it’s an Olympic sport,
but to which century does the
hammer-throw date in Europe?
5. What was a “mêlée” in
medieval jousting?
6. Colf is the medieval forerunner
to golf. True or False?
7. In the Middle Ages, what was a
joust à plaisance?
longbow archer fire every minute?
17. In the Middle Ages, what was a
joust à l’outrance?
18. Gameball was a medieval form of
football. True or False?
19. How many crossbow bolts could a
medieval archer fire every minute?
20. What equipment does the medieval
game of horseshoes require, other
than the horseshoes?

8. Where would a bowman practice

archery in medieval England?

9. In the Middle Ages, only boys

participated in sport and games.
True or False?

10. In which century did jousting

tournaments begin to die out
in Europe?

11. What was commonly used in the

medieval sport of stick fighting?

12. Which medieval people indulged

in falconry?

13. By law in 1252, who in England

was required to be equipped with
a bow and arrows?

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Horse Riding

1. When did dressage become an 14. In which year were the first
Olympic sport? Badminton Horse Trials held?

2. How many riders are there on a 15. At the 1956 Olympic Games in
polo team? Australia, all the equestrian events
were held in Sweden. True or False?

SPORTS & LEISURE

3. Approximately when were
horses first ridden: 10,000 bce, 16. During what historical period could
4,500 bce, 500 bce? you see horses involved in jousting?

4. Which form of horse racing is the 17. Who was the first female jockey
most popular worldwide? to ride in the Grand National?

5. Endurance riding usually features 18. Equestrian Olympic events are

what breeds of horse? governed by the rules of the
International Federation for
6. Equestrian events became part of Equestrian Sports. True or False?
the Olympic Games when?
19. In the 1932 Olympics in Los
7. Name the show-jumping event where Angeles, the show-jumping course
horses must jump a very high wall was so tough that what happened?
that gets higher with each round.
20. Until the 1952 Olympics in
8. Western riding style was brought Helsinki, only which people were
to the Americas by the Spanish allowed to compete in Olympic
conquistadors. True or False? dressage events?

9. Which British rider won the

equestrian individual jumping
Olympic gold medal in 2016?

10. Where does the CHIO show-

jumping tournament take place?

11. What country’s national horse-

riding sport is called Buzkashi?

12. The competition of endurance

riding often takes place over a
100-mile (160-km) radius.
True or False?

13. Which former winning track cyclist

made her competitive debut as a
jockey in 2015?

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 CHAPTER 8

FOOD &
DRINK

If you think you know your udon

FOOD & DRINK

from your bakmi, then this is for you.

Travel the world as you learn about
exotic and everyday dishes and
their origins, including cakes, pickles,
herbs, pies, and shellfish…
with vegetarian options!

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Have You Got a Taste for It?

1. Sushi is basically what: raw fish 16. What is the most succulent part
and rice, pasta, mashed vegetables? of Peking duck?

2. What is penne? 17. Where would you most likely

3. Is a sweet potato a vegetable
or a fruit?
4. What is daal made from?
5. What is pasta made from?
be given a California roll?
18. Which type of pickle is in a
Big Mac?
19. Where were deep-fried Mars
bars invented?

6. What is a tarte tatin? 20. What name is given to a

Spanish doughnut that is
7. Which country first gave dipped in melted chocolate?
consumers Oreos?

8. Which British chef started with a

FOOD & DRINK

restaurant called The Fat Duck?

9. Root beer is a popular fizzy drink.

What was it originally made of?

10. Butter is added to tea to make butter

tea (po cha) in which country?

11. Which type of cooking uses

a tandoor: North Indian,
Thai, Mexican?

12. In which country would you most

likely be served food in a dish
known as a “tagine”?

13. Tortillas are Mexican flat breads

used in wraps, but the same word
is also used for a different type
of food. What is it?

14. Moussaka is the national dish

of which country?

15. Where was Gouda cheese first made?

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Best of British

1. Which of these is a type of sweet 13. Which small tree’s flowers is

suet pudding: Sussex pond, Norfolk
royal, Shetland sassermeat?
2. What is an Aberdeen rowie?
3. Which Scottish delicacy did Robert
Burns describe as “Great chieftain
o’ the puddin’-race”?
4. The main ingredient of Welsh
rarebit is rabbit. True or False?
5. Which county is home to the
Melton Mowbray pork pie?
6. What are usually offered with a
traditional “cream tea,” apart
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traditionally used to flavor
gooseberry jam and used to
make cordial drinks?
14. There are recipes for cooking gray
squirrel. True or False?
15. Which English county is
noted for its oatcakes as
well as for ceramics?
16. The Welsh baked delicacy Bara
brith translates as…?
17. Which of these foods is regularly
eaten in the UK: bangers and
mash, fish and chips, chicken

from a pot of tea? tikka marsala?

7. Gloucester Old Spot is a breed of 18. Name the British cheese that is the
which British farm animal? favorite of Wallace and Gromit.

8. At which British sporting event 19. What links Yorkshire pudding and
are strawberries and cream the fish sold in chip shops?
traditionally served?
20. When is the British
9. Fill in the missing word in this dish: asparagus season?
“_________ in the hole.”

10. Which of these ingredients is

included in Mrs. Beeton’s 1861
recipe for mince pies: minced
lamb, minced pork, minced beef?

11. Marmalade is named after Mary,

Queen of Scots, who enjoyed its
health-giving properties: pour
Marie malade. True or False?

12. What is NOT traditional in

a British fry-up: eggs, hash
browns, bacon?

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Oodles of Noodles
1. Noodle comes from the word
nudel. From which language
does it derive?
2. The world’s oldest bowl of noodles
was found preserved along the
Yellow River in China. How old
are the noodles estimated to be?
3. The first written record of dry pasta
can be traced to Arab travelers from
which century?
4. Udon is a wheat noodle associated
with which country?
5. How is the noodle dish Mie
goreng cooked?
6. With which country is the glass
noodle salad most associated?
7. The term “chow mein” refers to a
range of stir-fry noodle dishes.
Which is its country of origin?
8. From what are cellophane
noodles made?
9. In Korea, to which kind of noodles
does olchaeng-chi guksu refer?
10. Reshteh noodles come from which
ancient empire?
11. To which kind of noodles does the
Chinese bakmi refer?
12. When did ramen noodles, which are
based on Chinese noodles, become
popular in Japan?
13. What are knife-cut Korean
noodles called?
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QUIZ 318
14. Chilk naengmyeon are chewy,
transparent noodles. True or False?
15. What is the main ingredient
of vermicelli?
16. Lo mein is a noodle casserole.
True or False?
17. In which year were instant noodles
first marketed in Japan?
18. During which dynasty did
noodles become a staple for
the Chinese people?
19. Acorn noodles are made from
acorn meal. True or False?
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20. Which country is most associated
with the noodle dish Pad Thai?
21. Noodles and other pasta are what
type of carbohydrate?
22. Kugel is a traditional Jewish dish
featuring noodles. Is it a soup, a
pudding, or a drink?
23. Which form of pasta takes its
name from a Latin word meaning
feather or quill—and hence a
writing instrument?
24. What are Japanese buckwheat
noodles called?
25. March is National Noodle Month
in the US. True or False?
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 QUIZ 319
Easy Cheesy
1. What do cheeses require less of
when made in cooler climates?
2. A lover of cheese is called a what?
3. In which European country is
there archaeological evidence
of cheesemaking dating from
5500 bce?
4. Eating cheese before and after meals
is thought to reduce what?
5. On the 4,000-year-old wall
paintings of which African
country have images of
cheesemaking been found?
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6. Where is manchego cheese from?
7. Which character from Homer’s
Odyssey makes cheese?
8. According to the British Cheese
Board, how many varieties of
cheese exist in the UK?
9. Roquefort is a blue cheese from
which country?
10. What is the main feature of casu
marzu cheese?
11. With which European country is
casu marzu cheese most associated?
12. Fresh cheeses without additional
preservatives will not spoil in a
matter of days. True or False?
13. Which Treasure Island character
asks Jim Hawkins: “You mightn’t
happen to have a piece of cheese
about you, now”?
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EASY
14. Which country is most associated
with feta cheese?
15. Cornish yarg is wrapped in nettles.
True or False?
16. According to a 2005 British Cheese
Board study, cheese consumption
before bedtime causes what?
17. Cheese in aerosol cans can
commonly be found in the US.
True or False?
18. Which popular Italian cheese is
often made from domesticated
water buffalo milk?
19. According to The Proverbs of
John Heywood of 1546, the
moon is made from what color
of cheese?
20. Feta cheese can come from goat’s
or sheep’s milk. True or False?
21. Monterey Jack cheese is from
which state?
22. Roquefort is made with ewe,
cow, or goat’s milk?
23. What is distinctive about how
Edam cheese looks?
24. You can make cheese from
reindeer milk. True or False?
25. You cannot freeze hard cheese.
True or False?
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Regional American Cuisine

1. Where is Key lime the official 14. Po’ boy is a meat sandwich
state pie? from which state?

2. Which state is most associated 15. What has been called the “queen
with clam chowder? of the New Mexican winter table”?

3. Where did James Dewar first come 16. Where were chocolate chip
up with the Twinkie in 1930? cookies invented?

4. Where are boiled peanuts not 17. The cheeseburger allegedly derives
traditionally enjoyed in the US? from where in Los Angeles?

5. In which decade did fajita taco
stands begin appearing at rodeos
in Texas?
6. Where are Johnny cakes
traditionally cooked in the US?
18. Chicago-style pizza comes with
a thick crust. True or False?
19. On average, how many pizza slices
are eaten in the US per person per
year: 37, 42, 46, 50?

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7. Which part of the United States 20. Which state boasts the sourest
is most associated with biscuits sourdough bread?
and gravy?

8. Which European immigrants

introduced the Texan favorite of
chicken-fried steak to America?

9. Which French dish is San

Francisco’s cioppino most like?

10. The American Indians of which

state are thought to have discovered
popcorn around 6,000 years ago?

11. Where in New York were

Buffalo wings invented?

12. Which city does NOT claim to

have invented barbecue ribs:
Chicago, Dallas, Seattle?

13. The phrase “as American as apple

pie” is not exactly accurate. Why?

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Shellfish

1. What kind of shellfish forms the
heart of a clambake?
2. Whelks are bivalves,
gastropods, or cephalopods?
3. Which kind of shellfish is often
served in a cocktail?
4. What is opening an oyster
shell called?
5. Which of these is NOT another
name for the shellfish langoustine:
Bernie Bay shuckler, Norway
lobster, scampi?
6. Shellfish mostly eat phytoplankton
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15. Shellfish is one of the main
ingredients of the South American
curanto. With which country is it
most associated?
16. More people died from oyster
poisoning in 2006 than all of
the global conflicts combined.
True or False?
17. How is the French plateau de fruits
de mer served?
18. She-crab soup is a favorite in the
south of which country?
19. With which state are clams
traditionally associated?

and zooplankton. True or False?

20. Moules are…?
7. Spaghetti alle vongole is made with
which shellfish? 21. Which part of a lobster is
the tomally?
8. Which country is responsible for
creating the lobster bisque? 22. Shrimp and prawns are different
species. True or False?
9. Which dish features raw shellfish
and fish marinated in lemon or 23. What is surf and turf?
lime juice?
24. What is a quahog?
10. Which of these is a type of prawn:
tiger, lion, leopard? 25. Which bivalve might Mary Mary
Quite Contrary have had in
11. Shellfish that smells strongly of her garden?
ammonia should not be eaten.
True or False?

12. The pipi is a shellfish found in

which country?

13. Usually served on crushed ice,

these are what?

14. Which region of the US is often

associated with crabs?

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Healing Foods

1. Which vegetable is a great 12. Which root vegetable is thought to

reliever of colds, bronchitis,
and coughs, especially when
eaten raw?
2. Which simple fruit can help relieve
stress and anxiety?
3. Which sweet food has antibacterial
and antiviral effects?
increase fertility in men?
13. Which tropical fruit has been
shown to reduce the likelihood
of blood clots?
14. A diet high in cheese consumption
has been shown to reduce
gallstones. True or False?

4. Which berries are thought to lower
cholesterol, reduce the risk of
diabetes, slow the aging process,
and improve motor skills?
5. Which food is rich in protein and
omega-3 fatty acid but low in
15. What has root ginger been shown
to reduce in humans?
16. Which herb can help reduce
intestinal cramps?
17. Which fruit can relieve constipation

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calories and saturated fat? and diarrhea?

6. Which drink is thought to lower 18. Which fruit has been proven to help
the risk of cancer and helps treat prevent urinary tract infections?
inflammatory bowel disease?
19. Which vegetable helps stabilize
7. Which green vegetable superfood is blood pressure and has nerve-
loaded with vitamins A, B6, and K, soothing properties?
folic acid, and minerals such as
calcium and potassium? 20. Bananas are a good source of
potassium. True or False?
8. Which nut has been proven
to reduce the risk of coronary
heart disease?

9. Once considered a dietary no-no,

which food is now thought to provide
cancer-preventive properties and
mood-enhancing effects?

10. In which dairy product can

probiotics be found?

11. Which bulb was praised by the

ancient Greeks and Egyptians
for its beneficial properties?

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Pickles and Preserves

1. Which famous English sponge 15. What is sugar mainly used

cake named after a queen has to preserve?
jam in the middle?
16. Dehydration is one of the
2. Meat during the Middle Ages was oldest-known methods of food
preserved in salt. True or False? preservation. True or False?

3. When making jam, which fruit 17. Brine is a solution made up of what?
juice helps draw out the pectin,
making it set? 18. Malt, balsamic, and pickling are
types of which preserving agent?
4. Vinegar is mainly used to
preserve what? 19. At which temperature does jam
reach its setting point?
5. You cannot preserve meat by
wet-curing it. True or False? 20. Fruit cheeses date back to
pre-Roman times. True or False?
6. The natural gelling agent agar,
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used in jam making, comes from 21. What is the origin of the
which country? word “marmalade”?

7. The main ingredients of fruit 22. Where did the word “chutney”
curd are? come from?

8. Membrillo is a fruit cheese from 23. What is the name of the good
which country? bacteria involved in pickling?

9. What is used to strain the juice 24. Sauerkraut is pickled what?

of simmered fruit to make jelly?
25. Which salad vegetable becomes a
10. Fruit cheese contains cheese. pickle or a gherkin when preserved?
True or False?

11. What are a demijohn, an airlock,

and a siphon used for?

12. Burying food underground is

a method of food preservation.
True or False?

13. Fresh fruit bottled in alcohol, if left

unopened, will keep for how long?

14. What is the name of the traditional

Scandinavian salted salmon?

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Piece of Cake

1. What fungus is added to flour and 16. Pastel de Leches is a sponge cake
water to make bread rise? from which country?

2. What is a sfingi? 17. From which part of the world does

the nutty dessert halwa come?
3. Which area in Germany is famous
for its sweet baking? 18. Complete the following phrase:
“the greatest thing since…”
4. When is stollen traditionally eaten?
19. Pastry was originally made by the
5. The name of the German cake Egyptians. True or False?
bienenstich translates as “bee
sting cake.” True or False? 20. What is the process of baking a pie
crust without the filling known as?
6. Madeleines were made famous
by which French author?

7. Florentines and canestrelli are

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biscuits from which country?

8. Baking powder produces carbon

dioxide when combined with heat.
True or False?

9. Shortbread is a traditional biscuit

from which country?

10. A meringue-based dessert is named

after which famous ballerina?

11. Shortcrust, double-crust, puff,

and choux are all types of what?

12. Which Italian cheese can be used

as an alternative to cream cheese
in baking?

13. Profiteroles are normally filled

with what?

14. Panettone is traditionally eaten

at Halloween. True or False?

15. Which baked item is traditionally

associated with afternoon tea?

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Food Origins

1. Which bean was once used as a 15. The pear is a native fruit of
form of currency in Mesoamerica? which region?

2. The humble potato was first 16. Parma ham originally comes from
farmed where? which country?

3. What food was found buried with 17. The snack made of cheese sauce
Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen? on toast is called Welsh what?

4. From which continent did the 18. In which Asian country did the
banana originate? apricot originate?

5. Where did the pineapple first 19. Olives were first grown in
come from? Barcelona, Spain. True or False?

6. When is the Bavarian weisswurst 20. Which starchy tuber is a common

traditionally eaten? crop of African origin?
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7. When the avocado was introduced 21. Sweet potatoes originated in

to the US in the early 19th century, which region?
it was called the what?
22. The Crusaders brought what food
8. The croissant is a breakfast back to Europe with them after
staple of which country? their exploits abroad?

9. Which vegetable was first 23. Which sort of thin sausage first
grown in Mesoamerica appeared in a French recipe in 1903?
around 3500 bce?
24. From when does the British
10. How long does it take a hen to nickname “banger” originate?
create and lay an egg?
25. Where is the sheftalia sausage from?
11. What fruit was a staple in the
diets of the ancient Romans,
Greeks, and Egyptians?

12. A famous English hot pot

comes from which county?

13. The Brazil nut is native

to the country of Brazil.
True or False?

14. How many types of sausage

are there in Germany?

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Festive Treats and Other Eats
1. Which green vegetable is a
traditional British accompaniment
to the Christmas Day meal?
2. At which celebration in the US is
pumpkin pie usually served?
3. What is traditional German
Christmas cake called?
4. Chocolate eggs are a treat for young
and old at which seasonal holiday?
5. Candy canes were supposedly
invented to keep children quiet
during 19th-century Christmases.
True or False?
6. On what festive day would workers
and servants be given presents and
leftover food?
7. What is traditionally eaten on
Christmas Day in the UK: fish,
turkey, lobster?
8. Toffee apples are often made at
Halloween, shortly after the apple
harvest. True or False?
9. What food is eaten on Shrove
Tuesday, the day before Lent?
10. Mulled wine is consumed at
Christmas and generally served
hot or cold?
11. “One a penny, two a penny...”—
what Easter treats are these?
12. What type of pie is often served
during festive holidays in America?
13. In which country might you be if
served a pavlova on Christmas Day?
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14. A traditional Scottish fruit
cake is a what?
15. Fried chicken is such a great
favorite for Christmas dinner in
this country that takeout orders
are placed months in advance.
Which country is it?
16. What was the original ingredient
of “nog” in eggnog?
17. Köttbullar is a festive food
most commonly associated
with which country?
18. What coin was traditionally cooked
inside a Christmas pudding?
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19. Roast turkey is sometimes
accompanied by a sauce made
from which tangy fruit?
20. What fruit was often placed inside
children’s Christmas stockings?
21. Which two traditional condiments
are served with roast beef?
22. Brandy butter doesn’t actually
contain any brandy. True or False?
23. In Germany, what is a
Pfefferkuchenhaus?
24. Figgy pudding contains figs.
True or False?
25. Bread sauce is usually served
with what?
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An Apple a Day

1. How many varieties of apples
are there?
2. Who is the Bramley apple
named after?
3. Most modern apples are closely
related to the crab apple. True
or False?
4. Is a quince an apple or a pear?
5. Where did Cox’s Orange Pippin
apples originate?
15. The first Bramley apples came
from seeds planted by a girl in:
1777, 1809, 1901?
16. The apple belongs to the same
family as a popular garden
flower. Which one?
17. Which alcoholic drink is made
from pressed apples?
18. Which area of England is
well-known for producing
apple-based drinks?

6. Which country produces the 19. What is the apple called “Mother”
biggest apple crop? also known as?
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7. A peck and a bushel are ways 20. Which American folk hero is
to weigh apples. True or False? noted for planting apple trees
wherever he went?
8. The Java apple belongs to the
species Malus domestica.
True or False?

9. Pacific Rose is a pinkish apple

grown in which country?

10. A type of slightly sour apple

is called Granny…?

11. On which continent did the apple

originate: Australia, Asia, Europe?

12. Which of these is NOT an apple

variety: Jonathan, Red Delicious,
King Edward?

13. The apple genome was recently

decoded. The apple was found
to have around 57,000 genes.
True or False?

14. Apples contain about 85% water.

True or False?

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Puddings

1. Spotted Dick is so called because 14. The fruit and meringue-based

of which ingredient?
2. Cream puffs are known in
the UK as what?
3. Haggis, a Scottish dish, is
traditionally served with
mashed potatoes and what?
4. La Galette des Rois is a cake
eaten in France to celebrate
which feast day?
5. Christmas pudding emerged in
medieval England as a way of
preserving meat at the end of the
season. True or False?
pavlova was named after a
well-known Russian. What
was she famous for?
15. Sticky toffee pudding allegedly
originated in which country?
16. Sussex Pond pudding is a steamed
dessert consisting of suet pastry
encasing which whole fruit?
17. February 1 is National
Baked Alaska Day in the US.
True or False?
18. Which British tart consists of a
pastry shell spread with jam and

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6. Black pudding, a kind of blood
sausage, is usually eaten with which
meal in the UK?
7. Ile flottante is a French pudding
consisting of vanilla custard
and what?
8. Tiramisu, an Italian pudding,
literally means what?
a custard filling topped with
coconut flakes and glazed cherries?
19. Crêpes Suzette is a French pancake
pudding made with which fruit?
20. Summer pudding consists of
a selection of berries and fruit
and what other ingredient?

9. Which English school gives its

name to a dessert of strawberries,
meringue, and cream?

10. In Scandinavia, which dessert is

traditionally eaten at Christmas?

11. Crème brûlée literally translates

into English as what?

12. Pumpkin pie is a traditional dessert

at which celebration?

13. What is a clootie, a traditional

Scottish dessert?

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Herb Garden

1. The ancient Egyptians used herbs 16. Which herb is often added
as medicine. True or False? to pickles?

2. What are the two types of tarragon?
3. What happens to basil when it
gets frozen?
4. By what name is the herb Salvia
officinalis more commonly known?
5. When is the best time to sow
lemongrass seeds?
20. Herbs are generally split into
6. Which herb resembles thin
blades of grass?
17. In medieval times, fennel was
used to ward off witchcraft and
evil. True or False?
18. Is French or Russian tarragon
normally used in cooking?
19. Which religion are myrrh and
frankincense associated with?
three categories: perennials,
biennials, and what?

7. Dried bay leaves have stronger 21. Chamomile tea is said to help
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taste than fresh bay leaves. you do what?

True or False?
22. What kind of angelica is used
8. Which is the best kind of place in baking?
to grow herbs?
23. What herb is traditionally used
9. In Hamlet, Ophelia gives which to flavor pizza toppings?
herb for remembrance?
24. Mint sauce traditionally
10. Which herb has seeds that are accompanies which roast meat?
used as a spice?
25. Which herb do cats love?
11. Horseradish was once used to
cure which ailment?

12. Peppermint is a hybrid of water

mint and spearmint. True or False?

13. In the Middle Ages, women

would give thyme to warriors
for what?

14. How long does parsley take

to germinate?

15. Which herb is marjoram’s

closest relative?

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Vegetarian Options

1. Quinoa, a grain, is a complete 16. The “Bambi Effect” promotes

protein. True or False? vegetarianism by implying what?

2. Which meat substitute is made 17. Buddhist vegetarians don’t eat

from vital wheat gluten? vegetables from which genus?

3. Where did carrots originate? 18. What is tofu also known as?

4. In India, vegetarian food is marked 19. Quorn is sold as a substitute

with which image? for meat. True or False?

5. A vegetarian doesn’t eat animal 20. PETA, the animal rights

meat, so what doesn’t a vegan eat? organization, is an acronym
for what?
6. In which year was the first vegetarian
cookbook supposedly written?

7. A 2002 poll in the US showed

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what as the reason that most people
became vegetarians?

8. How many animal lives does one

vegetarian spare in a year?

9. Many crops yield up to ten times

more protein per area than meat.
True or False?

10. Roughly how much of the world

is vegetarian?

11. Fruitarians eat a diet of what?

12. The earliest record of vegetarianism

came from which country?

13. A Hindu law book called the

Manusmriti condemns the killing
of animals in all but what instance?

14. Vegans sometimes eat fish.

True or False?

15. Which sea vegetable is commonly

used to wrap sushi?

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Feeling Fruity
1. According to research, eating
which fruits can help prevent eye
problems (macular degeneration):
bananas, blueberries, oranges?
2. Strawberry is a member of the rose
family. True or False?
3. Which fresh fruit stops jelly
from setting: pineapple,
kiwi, papaya?
4. You can create a natural deodorant
by rubbing a lemon under your
armpits. True or False?
5. Coconut water is a suitable blood
plasma extender and can be used
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when other IV solutions run out.
True or False?
6. What used to be called a
Persian apple?
7. A fruit is the part of a plant that
contains its what?
8. Which of these is a variety of
apple: Discovery, Red Sensation,
Blue Mist?
9. Strawberries are the only fruits
that grow seeds on the outside.
True or False?
10. Which of these fruits does
NOT have an edible skin: lemon,
mango, melon?
11. Which of these is not a fruit: tomato,
cucumber, carrot?
12. Bananas shouldn’t be kept in
the refrigerator. If you do, what
will happen?
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13. Which fruit is used to make the
Spanish fruit “cheese” membrillo?
14. Which fruit is believed to have been
cultivated 1,000 years before wheat?
15. What is the minimum number of
servings of fruit and vegetables you
should eat each day to stay healthy?
16. What is the kiwi fruit named after?
17. An unripe pineapple is poisonous.
True or False?
18. Which of these is an edible fruit:
rainberry, cloudberry, snowberry?
19. According to legend, which fruit
tree did the Buddha cause to sprout
instantly from seed?
20. Which of these is a type of orange:
Valencia, Pamploa, Salamanca?
21. What percentage of a watermelon
is water?
22. Apple seeds contain cyanide.
True or False?
23. A kiwi is also called what?
24. The gooseberry plant has sharp
thorns. True or False?
25. Which fruit juice should you not
drink with some medication?
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Going Greens

1. Which country has the highest 16. Garlic is a member of the onion
percentage of vegetarians? family. True or False?

2. Where did potatoes originate?
3. Albert Einstein was a vegetarian.
True or False?
4. What kind of plant is a
Jerusalem artichoke?
5. Which cabbage is also known
as Dutch cabbage?
6. What is a Turk’s turban a variety of?
17. Cacti are used in Mexican cuisine.
True or False?
18. Which of these can a carrot NOT be:
purple, black, red, yellow, pink?
19. How long do asparagus plants take
to mature from seed?
20. Which flower-headed brassica has
been claimed to have significant
anti-cancer properties?

7. If you ate a whole dandelion, you 21. What is South American cassava
would be ill. True or False? also known as?

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8. Which is broccoli’s closest cousin? 22. Leeks are the national vegetable
of which country?
9. Who in The Simpsons is
a vegetarian? 23. What is bok choy?

10. Which of these girl’s names is
also a variety of potato: Susan,
Charlotte, Sophie?
11. Chard is closely related to spinach.
True or False?
24. Broccoli, cauliflower, and sprouts
all belong to which vegetable family?
25. Why do onions make people cry
when preparing them?

12. Slices of cucumber can be applied

directly to the face to treat puffy
eyes. What other vegetable could
also be used?

13. Which vegetable is also known as

“lady’s finger”?

14. Which vegetable reputedly

gave the cartoon character
Popeye his strength?

15. Which vegetable is normally the

main ingredient in borscht?

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All about Herbs and Spices

1. What herb is included in the French 15. The banana plant is a type of herb.
pistou sauce? True or False?

2. Which is milder, American mustard 16. Which herb’s Latin name means
or Dijon mustard? “dew of the sea”?

3. Which herb is known as the 17. Which herb was a symbol of

“Royal Herb”? immortality in ancient Rome?

4. Parsley can be used to deodorize
pans that have a garlic or onion
smell in them. True or False?
5. Which of these herbs is a member
of the onion family: mustard,
borage, chive?
18. What is the main herb used in the
Argentinian sauce chimichurri?
19. The Mediterranean fines herbes mix
comprises chives, parsley, tarragon,
and which other herb with a mild
licorice flavor?

6. Is sumac an herb or a spice? 20. What color flowers does the

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curry plant have?

7. Of which herb are these all
varieties: Greek, lemon, sweet,
and purple?

8. Which herb is a key flavor in

the Scandinavian dish gravlax?

9. The herb smallage is the leaves of

the wild variety of which vegetable?

10. The seeds of the herb anise

taste of what?

11. Which part of the ginger plant

does the spice come from?

12. Peppermint products can alleviate

which of these: headaches,
stomach-aches, sore muscles?

13. Which two herbs are traditionally

used in tabbouleh?

14. Of which herb are these all

varieties: orange-scented,
lemon, common, silver?

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Behind the Chopsticks
1. Traditionally you drink apple juice
with Chinese meals. True or False?
2. The correct way to eat rice from a
bowl is to perch the bowl on your
lower lip. True or False?
3. Tea is served with dim sum.
True or False?
4. Five-spice powder is often used in
Chinese cooking. True or False?
5. As a symbol of longevity, what
is always served for a Chinese
birthday celebration?
6. What is the most basic and important
seasoning for Chinese food?
7. What is the most essential cooking
utensil in Chinese cookery?
8. What are you doing if you are
“going through the oil”?
9. What is the traditional way to sit
down to a Chinese meal?
10. Which of these teas might be
served with a Chinese meal:
Jagertee, Assam, Oolong?
11. Why are knives and forks not
traditionally used at Chinese tables?
12. Which of these Chinese ingredients
is traditionally eaten fresh: bamboo
shoots, edible jellyfish, bird’s nest?
13. Drunken chicken is a dish marinated
overnight in: wine, whisky, beer?
14. In Chinese cooking, vegetables are
cut into uniform small pieces. Why?
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15. How can you make the ends
of spring onions curl up after
cutting them?
16. What is the best heat source when
cooking in a wok?
17. Which of these is actually a
traditional Japanese dish: fugu,
wontons, Peking duck?
18. Which of these is the odd one
out: pilau rice, plain fried rice,
beef fried rice?
19. Which of these is a fake ingredient:
sea aubergine, cloud ears, hair algae?
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20. How is rice usually prepared for
consumption in Chinese cooking?
21. A jiaozi is a small boiled dumpling.
True or False?
22. Noodles are never served in soup
in traditional Chinese cooking.
True or False?
23. Wrapped in bamboo leaves,
a zongzi is what?
24. Soba is a Chinese dish from the
15th century. True or False?
25. What kind of nut is a main feature
of Kung Pao chicken?
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Breakfast

1. What is the Indian breakfast of 12. In which country would you

flattened rice and seasoned potato?
2. In Scandinavia, filmjölk is often
served for breakfast. What is it?
3. In which country might your
breakfast consist of sheep
offal and oatmeal wrapped
in a sheep’s stomach?
4. What does the Mexican breakfast
food known as huitlacoche contain?
5. Served with fish, ackee is a fruit
that might poison you if not prepared
correctly. Which country prepares the
dish for breakfast?
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enjoy the steamed egg dish of
chawanmushi for breakfast?
13. Syrniki is a pancake filled with soft
cheese. In which country would you
be served this for breakfast?
14. What is the Vietnamese breakfast
soup of noodles, basil, lime, bean
sprouts, and beef called?
15. In which country would you eat
Chocoleca spread on a baguette
for breakfast?
16. The offal of which animal is
mixed together and fried up for an

American breakfast of scrapple?

6. Siri paya is a soup that features the
head and feet of a lamb, sheep, or
goat. In which country would you
be served it for breakfast?
7. In Iraq, honey, butter, and cheese
are enjoyed with which bread
for breakfast?
8. Polish breakfasts are hearty affairs,
featuring eggs, cold meats, tomatoes,
and pickles. What is the twarog that
also accompanies it?
9. It’s breakfast time and you’re being
served kimchi, a dish of fermented
vegetables and red peppers. Where
are you?
17. Which country commonly serves
open sandwiches for breakfast?
18. Second breakfast is traditional
in some parts of Germany. True
or False?
19. Chocolate con churros is
a traditional breakfast of
which country?
20. What else is in the Chinese
breakfast of congee with
century egg?

10. Spicy rice noodles are never eaten for

breakfast in Thailand. True or False?

11. Loco moco is a dish of rice, with

a hamburger and fried egg on top.
Where in the world is this served
for breakfast?

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Teatime Traditions
1. Which English monarch set the
trend for tea drinking in England
when she chose the beverage instead
of ale for her morning drink?
2. Between what hours is the
traditional French tea party,
or thé, held?
3. At what hour did the duchess of
Bedford, Anna Maria Stanhope,
hold afternoon tea?
4. British sailors and soldiers used the
word “char” for tea. Which language
did this slang term come from?
5. American iced tea originally
featured green tea and what?
6. In which century was high tea
introduced to England?
7. What form of green tea is
served in Japan and China
in formal tea ceremonies?
8. What traditional English snack
often accompanies a formal
afternoon tea?
20. In England, which of these is NOT
9. In the 1910s, what activity often
took place in America’s tearooms?
10. Lu Yu was the author of 600 ce Cha
Jing or “Tea Classic.” From which
country did he hail?
11. What did Thomas Sullivan
successfully market in 1908?
12. Portuguese priests were first
introduced to tea drinking in
China during the 16th century.
True or False?
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13. Moroccan tea drinking is often
considered an art form. What is
the tea’s main ingredient?
14. Which of these is NOT one of the
reasons a Chinese tea ceremony
is held: a declaration of war, an
apology, a sign of respect?
15. What year did Catherine of
Braganza, wife of Charles II,
introduce tea drinking to the
English court?
16. Which country declared tea as
its national drink in 2013?
17. Singapore is the only country
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in Asia where tea is not sold.
True or False?
18. Which was the first tea to be
drunk in China, sometime in
the 10th century bce: green tea,
white tea, black tea?
19. In which century ce was
the Japanese tea ceremony
first developed?
a feature of a Cornish cream tea:
scone, golden syrup, cream?
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Super Sausages
1. Pepperoni takes its name from
the Italian word for what?
2. Where does the square sausage
also known as Lorne sausage
come from?
3. British black pudding traditionally
contains oatmeal. True or False?
4. In which former Portuguese colony
would you find Chouriço?
5. Botifarra blood sausage comes
from which Mediterranean cuisine?
6. What is currently the world’s
spiciest sausage?
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7. Similar to American hot dogs,
frankfurters are made of pork
smoked in a specific way.
What is their full, protected
German name?
8. Which of these is NOT a part of
the traditional haggis: chicken
liver, sheep pluck, ox bung?
9. Which country does Lap Cheong
sausage come from?
10. From which seasoning’s Latin
name is the word “salami” derived?
11. Kiełbasa means “sausage” in
Polish. True or False?
12. Droëwors is a dried sausage
snack popular in which country?
13. In which year was the
Cumberland sausage granted
protected geographical
status by the European Union?
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14. Where does chorizo get its
distinctive color from?
15. What Italian sausage is made
with pork-fat cubes and flavored
with spices?
16. The American version of
mortadella is called “bologna,”
and US regulations require
that there are no visible pieces
of lard. True or False?
17. Fuet is a thin, cured sausage
from which country?
18. What is the origin of the
word “sausage”?
19. Cervelas is a kind of cooked sausage
produced mainly in which country?
20. Measuring 4,921 ft (1,500 m),
and containing more than 10,000
pieces, the world’s longest sausage
chain was produced in which
country in 2009?
21. Why did the Roman Emperor
Constantinus I ban sausages in 320 ce?
22. Where does the chipolata come from?
23. What sausages would you most
likely find at a sports stadium?
24. Reputedly the most expensive
sausage contained black truffle
shavings. True or False?
25. Weighing a whopping 34,172 lb
(15,500 kg) and measuring more
than 35 miles (56 km), when was
the world record for the longest
single sausage established?
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Something Fishy

1. Which of these fishing methods 15. From which continent does

are sustainable: handline fishing,
fishing with large-mesh nets,
diver caught?
2. Which fish product is traditionally
used in taramosalata?
3. Which of these fish is endangered:
pollock, Arctic cod, barracuda?
4. At 2 years old, a sardine ceases to
be a sardine. What does it become?
5. What is the name of the Portuguese
dish of salted cod?
6. Which of these is a freshwater fish:
the dish of ceviche come?
16. The word “fish” comes from
which language?
17. Nuoc mam is fish sauce
from where?
18. What typically distinguishes
freshwater fish from saltwater fish?
19. Sea cucumber is edible. True
or False?
20. Sockeye and chinook are types
of what?

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perch, tuna, flounder?

7. How do you get to the oyster flesh?

8. The eyes of a fish sold for food can

tell you if it’s fresh. What sort of
eyes should the fish have?

9. What’s the most expensive edible

fish in the world?

10. Which fish cut comes from just

behind a fish’s head?

11. Which part of a crab is called the

“dead man’s fingers”?

12. When you remove an oyster from

its shell, it must be alive or it may
not be safe to eat. True or False?

13. Kippers are a smoked version

of which fish?

14. What should you use to serve

Beluga caviar in order not to
damage the eggs?

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1. A popular accompaniment to
soup, croûtes are what?
2. Which of these Italian soups
contain meat: zuppa Toscana,
ribollita, minestrone?
3. Which famous artist created
a picture of soup cans?
4. What is the key ingredient in
bird’s nest soup?
5. A mirepoix forms the base of
many classic soups. What does
it consist of?
6. The earliest evidence of our
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ancestors eating soup dates
from when?
7. What ingredient other than
beetroot does borscht
often contain?
8. Vichyssoise is traditionally
served hot. True or False?
9. Chicken soup is also known
as Jewish what?
10. From where does the soup
bouillabaisse come?
11. Which soup would you expect
to find prunes in?
12. In the court of Louis XI, ladies’
meals were mostly soup because
they were afraid chewing would
give them facial wrinkles. True
or False?
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Souped Up
13. Italian wedding soup is
traditionally served at Italian
weddings. True or False?
14. The world’s most expensive soup,
“Buddha Jumps over the Wall,” is
a variety of which Chinese soup?
15. Fruit soup should always be
served cold. True or False?
16. Al Capone ran a soup kitchen.
True or False?
17. What is the radical weight-loss
soup diet called?
18. What is the main ingredient of
mock turtle soup?
19. Consommé is always what?
20. What does the Anglo-Indian
dish mulligatawny mean in Tamil?
21. What is soup usually served in?
22. What is used to thicken gumbo?
23. What is the main ingredient
of daal soup?
24. Where does avgolemono
come from?
25. Tshoem is an Asian soup
from which country?
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My Thai

1. This Thai word can mean “rice,”
“nine,” or several other things,
depending on how it is spoken.
What is the word?
2. What part of the kaffir lime
is NOT used in Thai cooking?
3. Krating Daeng is what type of
drink in Thailand?
4. In which region of Thailand
would you find the spiciest food?
5. What are the most common
utensils used to eat Thai food?
14. Nam pla is very commonly used
in Thai cooking. What is it?
15. Shrimp paste is often burned
in Thai homes because of its
sweet fragrance. True or False?
16. If you found these dishes on a
Thai menu, which would you
expect to taste hottest: green
chicken curry, mussaman beef
curry, yellow prawn curry?
17. Agar-agar is used as a setting
agent in Thai cooking. What is
it derived from?

6. What green fruit is often used 18. Is licking fingers at the table after

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to flavor Thai food?
7. When or how is Thai soup eaten:
a snack, breakfast, dinner?
8. What is the main ingredient of
Som Tam?
9. In what way is galangal different
from fresh root ginger?
a meal in Thailand bad manners or a
sign that the meal was excellent?
19. In Thailand, what food is it OK
to eat with your fingers?
20. If you give your host a gift in
Thailand, you shouldn’t wrap
it in the colors green, black,
or blue. True or False?

10. Thai people eat a lot of baked

food. True or False?

11. Thai desserts sometimes include

rice, pumpkin, corn, tomatoes,
and sweet potato. True or False?

12. Which of these is NOT a type

of Thai curry: brown curry,
red curry, green curry?

13. Most of the herbs used in Thai

cooking have health benefits.
True or False?

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In Praise of Pies
1. What is blind baking?
2. What is a flan?
3. A sonker—a deep dish fruit pie—
is unique to which state?
4. Crimped, fluted, arrowhead, and
feathered are all types of what?
5. Where did the recipe for
cobbler originate?
6. In the rhyme “Sing a Song of
Sixpence,” how many blackbirds
were baked in a pie?
7. What was the 12th-century
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word for a pie crust?
8. The first cherry pie in English
history is reported to have
been made during the reign
of which monarch?
9. Roman statesman Cato the Younger
was a big fan of pies. What was the
name of his preferred pie?
10. The Bedfordshire clanger is a British
elongated pie that has savory filling
at one end and sweet filling at the
other. True or False?
11. The first cookbook to have
recipes for pies and tarts is
from which year?
12. A pie is also an American term
for which Italian dish?
13. The dessert Apple Brown Betty was
named after the women who created
the recipe, Angela Brown and Betty
Johnson. True or False?
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14. Buko pie is a type of pie that
consists mainly of young coconuts.
Where did this pie originate?
15. Which pie is typically filled
with salmon, rice, hard-boiled
eggs, mushrooms, and dill?
16. A Boston cream pie is actually
a type of cake. True or False?
17. In which season are mince pies
cooked and eaten?
18. In the US, where is the shoofly
pie most common?
19. What vegetable is commonly
found in a spanakopita pie?
20. During the reign of King Charles V,
at a banquet a chef created an
immense pie that held what inside?
21. Calzone is a type of pie made
with what sort of dough?
22. In which Shakespeare play do
two characters end up in a pie?
23. The Cornish stargazy pie features
what on the top?
24. Melton Mowbray is known for
which type of pies?
25. In ancient Roman times, pie
crust was so tough that it was
thrown away. True or False?
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Forbidden Foods
1. Which popular Scottish delicacy
is now forbidden to enter the US?
2. Which popular American
condiment has been banned
in French primary schools?
3. Which country banned
samosas for being “offensive”
and “too Christian”?
4. Which European drink that
contains wormwood is banned
from entering the US?
5. Which country has not banned
the sale of shark fins?
6. Where has the Japanese
puffer-fish been banned?
7. Which gummy candies were
banned from the UK for containing
a thickening agent called konjac?
8. How many states have banned
unpasteurized milk?
9. Which Sardinian delicacy has
been banned across the European
Union for containing the larvae
Piophila casei, which can cause
gastric lesions?
10. Although banned in France,
ortolan often still shows up
on menus. What is it?
11. Which of these countries still
produces foie gras: Belgium,
Switzerland, Sweden?
12. Which country banned sassafras
oil in the 1960s because of its links
to liver damage?
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13. While banned everywhere else in
the world, kiwi meat is still served
in New Zealand. True or False?
14. Although banned in the US, which
country and creator of pig’s blood
cake still considers it a delicacy?
15. Pommac, by Dr. Pepper, was
banned in the US for containing
the sweetener sodium cyclamate.
What is Pommac?
16. Which 1980s American dish
became so popular it had to be
banned before its main ingredient
was made extinct?
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17. Kangaroo meat is banned in
Australia but sold widely in the rest
of the world. True or False?
18. The UK banned stevia as a food
but allowed its use as a sweetener
in 2011. What is it?
19. The raw version of which Jamaican
fruit was once banned from the US?
20. Which confectionery with a non-
nutritive object embedded in it
has been banned in the US?
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Failed Foods
1. Which short-lived 1963 McDonald’s
burger was aimed at Roman Catholics
who were not allowed to eat meat
on Fridays?
2. Which Coca-Cola drink didn’t
impress consumers, despite having
double the amount of caffeine and
a coffee flavor?
3. What was the name of the Coca-Cola
Company’s biggest product failure,
launched in 1985?
4. How many grams of fat are there in
a McDonald’s Big Mac hamburger?
5. Wow! Chips by Frito-Lay promised
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to be fat free, but instead they
caused stomach upsets and were
soon removed from supermarket
shelves. True or False?
6. Which of these is NOT a McDonald’s
food idea that didn’t take off:
McPizza, McHotdog, McCaviar?
7. Which heat-resistant chocolate bar did
Hershey’s produce briefly in 1990?
8. What long-lasting, carbonated,
orange-flavored milk was a
great flop with consumers?
9. Which color M&M was abandoned
in the mid-1990s?
10. Which Coca-Cola flavor was short
lived: New Coke, Pineapple Coke,
Ginger Cola?
11. Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy
Mummy were both failed Monster
cereals. True or False?
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12. Which failed McDonald’s burger
featured a separately packaged
hot and cold side?
13. Who marketed the short-lived
BK Baguette Sandwich?
14. Did Jell-O try introducing a mixed
vegetable flavor? Yes or No?
15. The McDonald’s Arch Deluxe was
released in 1996 but didn’t make it
into 1998. True or False?
16. Despite having Britney Spears
advertise it, which Pepsi drink
just couldn’t be saved?
17. What was Kellogg’s failed 1998
ready-made cereal called?
18. Launched in 1992, Crystal Pepsi
flopped in every country except
China, where it is still sold today.
True or False?
19. Which failed soft drink was
marketed as the “texturally
enhanced alternative beverage”?
20. Which of these was NOT a
color available in the failed
condiment Heinz EZ Squirt:
blue, yellow, purple?
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Tea and Coffee
1. In which country did coffee
drinking originate?
2. What is often sprinkled on
a cappuccino?
3. Which two countries each claim
to have invented the “flat white”?
4. Which type of coffee is thick,
black, short, and strong?
5. From which Italian port city
was coffee introduced to the
rest of Europe?
6. Which of these is NOT one of
the ingredients of caffè Medici:
orange, whipped cream, mint?
7. In which country was the first
recorded instance of tea drinking?
8. England’s Queen’s Lane Coffee
House was founded in 1654.
In which city can it still be
found today?
9. What is added to steamed
milk and coffee to make a
caffè mocha?
10. During which 19th-century
war did coffee become an
everyday commodity?
11. During the Age of Sail, what
did sailors dissolve in hot
water as a coffee substitute?
12. The type of coffee made from
espresso, steamed milk, and
cocoa powder is called what?
13. Which country produces the most tea?
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14. From which Caribbean island
is most of the world’s Arabica
coffee descended?
15. Slices of what fruit are featured
in the coffee guillermo?
16. A green eye contains dripped
chocolate and three shots of
espresso. As what is it also known?
17. In which country would you be most
commonly served a mazagran?
18. Which of these countries is NOT
a leading producer of coffee: Brazil,
Colombia, Mali?
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19. Where is 80 percent of tea
consumed cold?
20. Coffee has been proven to be the
leading cause of heart attacks in
American men over the age of 50.
True or False?
21. A zebra mocha with added raspberry
flavoring is known in coffee circles
as a what?
22. Turkish coffee never leaves ground
coffee beans in the bottom of the
cup. True or False?
23. In which country was coffee drinking
banned in the 17th century?
24. Tea is the second-most-consumed
liquid on Earth after water. True
or False?
25. What species of plant does tea
come from?
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Some Like it Hot

1. Which explorer brought the chili
pepper to Europe?
2. Flavored with lime juice and chilies,
this hot Thai soup is called what?
3. How many different varieties of
chili peppers are grown in Mexico?
4. Evidence of the first-known curries
dates back to around 2600 bce.
Which civilization was cooking
these dishes?
5. Which country is the leading
producer of spice, with around
1,212,542 tons (1,100,000 metric
tons) annually?
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14. The Moruga Scorpion is the hottest
chili pepper in the world. Where
is it grown?
15. How many Scoville heat units does
the hottest curry in the world, the
“Widower,” allegedly contain?
16. Which spicy dish from Louisiana
is made with fresh chili peppers,
cayenne pepper, and tomatoes?
17. How many different varieties
of chili peppers are used in the
legendary phall curry?
18. Veeraswamy claims to be the oldest
curry house in England. On which

London street is it located?

6. Vindaloo derives from a Portuguese
dish from which part of India? 19. Chili peppers have been proven to
contain antimicrobial properties.
7. The unit for testing heat in spicy True or False?
foods is the what?
20. Hot and sour soup is a favorite
8. The smaller the chili pepper, food from which cuisine?
the hotter it is. True or False?

9. Which creatures do not suffer from

the hot effects of chili peppers?

10. People who love hot, spicy food

are called what?

11. What did Doctor Ian Rothwell

suffer from after eating the
“Widower,” supposedly the
hottest curry ever made?

12. What compound gives chili

peppers their hot taste?

13. Wat har bo is deemed to be one of

the hottest dishes in the world. From
which continent does it originate?

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Just Desserts

1. A tub of ice cream weighs 13 lb 15. When he was head chef at the
(6 kg) plus half its weight. How Savoy, Auguste Escoffier created
much does it weigh? the recipe peach Melba for whom?

2. A classic French dessert means 16. What is “couverture”

“burned cream.” What is it? in confectionery?

3. What is the Italian name for the
dessert sabayon?
4. Which dessert was mentioned
unfavorably in J. D. Salinger’s
novel The Catcher in the Rye?
5. To whom is the quote “Let them
eat cake” attributed?
17. Traditionally in Ireland, if you
receive a piece of barmbrack
on Halloween containing a pea,
what does it signify?
18. Clafoutis comes from
which country?
19. Is chocolate good for dogs?

6. Cat’s tongues are meringue treats 20. What four ingredients do you

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from where? need to make a traditional
crème anglaise?
7. What type of pastry are
cream puffs made from?

8. How would you expect cherries

jubilee to be cooked?

9. Which dessert is also known

as Norwegian omelette or
omelette surprise?

10. What was a traditional English

pudding originally steamed in?

11. Which fruit is traditional in

French clafoutis?

12. What old English dessert is made from

milk or cream curdled with alcohol?

13. Culinary legend says this dessert

was concocted after a schoolboy
dropped a basket. Its name?

14. A Bienenstich cake is also

known as what?

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Meat Matters

1. What meat would you find in
a traditional Hoppin’ John?
2. Which fast-food chain launched a
$119 Wagyu beef burger in 2008?
3. What cut of veal is normally
used in osso buco?
4. Bresaola is a type of beef from
Italy. How has it been prepared?
5. Which meat is banned in Islam
and Judaism?
6. Which animal’s meat is used
to make bacon?
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16. Which of these is NOT sold
as game: partridge, pheasant,
grouse, buzzard?
17. Lean meat is made up of how
much water?
18. From what part of the pig do
you get the pork butt?
19. What are the traditional
ingredients in steak tartare?
20. What meat do you
usually spatchcock?

7. Why do you sear meat in a

hot pan?

8. If you request your meat to be

cooked “blue” in a restaurant,
what will you get?

9. Tripe is a type of what?

10. Farming cattle releases methane

and adds to global warming.
True or False?

11. Rump, filet, and T-bone are all

cuts of what?

12. What meat would you find in

a traditional quiche lorraine?

13. The Guinness World Record

for the longest hot dog was
set in 2011. How long did
it measure?

14. Which animal gives us mutton?

15. What is boudin noir?

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Cakes

1. With which country would you
associate brioche?
2. The world’s most expensive cake,
the Pirates Fantas or Pirate’s
Fantasy, was created by chef
Dimuthu Kumarasinghe. How
much was it worth?
3. The Knave of Hearts stole
which tasty teatime treats
made by the Queen?
4. Which vanilla dessert’s name
means a “thousand sheets”?
5. If you were tucking into a slice
of Bebinca in the home of this
13. The idiom “a piece of cake” is
popularly thought to have come
from the 19th century. True
or False?
14. Who started the tradition of putting
candles on birthday cakes?
15. What type of fruit would you find
in Eve’s pudding?
16. What kind of pastry would you
use to make an éclair?
17. The Japanese cake yõkan contains
which essential ingredient?
18. The first mention of the cupcake

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16-layered cake, where would can be traced as far back as 1796.
you be? True or False?

6. What is the filling in a Baked Alaska?
7. What distinctive colors would you
find in a check-pattern if you cut a
slice of Battenberg cake?
8. The Australian Frog Cake actually
contains frogs. True or False?
19. Which of these sugars is the
darkest in color: muscovado,
demerara, palm?
20. Which of these is the best cream to
use for piping: sour cream, clotted
cream, double cream?

9. The pound cake is so called because

the traditional recipe includes one
pound of four essential ingredients:
flour, sugar, eggs, and… ?

10. Which of these is NOT a type of

icing: glossy icing, royal icing,
buttercream icing?

11. What is a whoopie pie: a sponge cake

with buttercream, jelly, peanuts?

12. What type of cake is traditionally

served on the Christian festival
of Epiphany?

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Foods of the World

1. In Korean cuisine, the main ingredient 12. Falafel is traditionally served

of baechu kimchi—the most
common type of kimchi—is what?
2. Which Japanese dish consists
of wheat noodles, served in a
meat/fish-based broth with
various toppings?
3. The Chinese dipping sauce hoisin
sauce has traditionally been made
with which type of potato?
4. The long, thin loaf of French bread
commonly made from basic lean
dough is called what?
5. In Berlin, hot pork sausage
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in what?
13. Cornbread is a common bread
associated with the South and
Southwest regions of where?
14. Which country is the world’s
largest producer of maple syrup?
15. Cocada is a traditional Brazilian
sweet made mainly from cocoa
beans. True or False?
16. Sandwiches de Miga are popular
in Argentina. They are single- or
double-layered sandwiches made
from which type of bread?

served with either curry ketchup

or a tomato paste with curry
powder is called what?
6. Muktuk is a traditional Inuit meal
made from what?
7. Jollof rice is a popular dish all over
West Africa, especially in Nigeria
and Ghana. True or False?
8. Suya is a meat kebab coated with
peanuts, chili powder, and other
local spices. Where is the origin
of this famous delicacy?
17. Coconut milk, paste, rice, and
seafood are the main ingredients
of Goan delicacies. True or False?
18. Found on African trees, mopane
is eaten as a dried, crispy snack.
What is it?
19. Ackee and salt fish is the national
dish of which country?
20. Guacamole is an avocado-based
dip that originated where?

9. Couscous is a staple food

throughout which region?

10. Hummus is a dish popular

throughout the Middle East. It is
blended with tahini, salt, lemon
juice, garlic, olive oil, and what?

11. Green tea historically goes back

to China, but how old are the first
references to it in Chinese literature?

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Baking

1. Before the eraser was invented, 15. In Belgium, what is bread

people would rub out pencil
marks with breadcrumbs. True
or False?
2. Tipo 2 is a type of what?
pudding called?
16. Which American religious
community is said to have
invented whoopie pies?

3. What is the optimal temperature 17. Similar to a baguette, what

range for yeast fermentation? is this bread called?

4. What kind of reaction helps to 18. Which type of brioche is

create a bread’s crust?
5. According to Guinness World
Records, ten slices of bread were
buttered in the fastest time ever
in 2018. How long did it take?
traditionally eaten in France
on January 6?
19. What type of flour is used
in a torta margherita?
20. Spritzgebäck is a cookie

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6. Yeast is never an ingredient used in traditionally served at
making flatbread. True or False? Christmas. Where?

7. What is the French equivalent of

the Italian focaccia?

8. Making soda scones, do you divide

the dough in half or into four?

9. The pocket in a pita bread is made

by steam. True or False?

10. The first single-loaf breadmaker

was released in Japan in what year?

11. Where do Stottie cakes

originate from?

12. What kind of pan are chapati

cooked in?

13. What type of fat is traditionally

used in hot water crust pastry?

14. Are pooris cooked by steaming,

grilling, or deep-fat frying?

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Outdoor Eating

1. What is the origin of the
word “barbecue”: French
barbe à queue, Spanish
barbacoa, Taino barabicoa?
2. A Maori barbecue is also
known as what?
3. Souvlaki is a type of… ?
4. Barbecues have been a White
House tradition since which
US president was in office?
5. Once your food is over the
coals, when should you add
a glaze to it?
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13. When the fat ignites on the
coals, what is it called?
14. You should never cover the
grill when doing direct heat
grilling. True or False?
15. What is a rub?
16. Which nation invented the picnic,
which means “to pick/peck”?
17. When making barbecue, when
do you apply a mop?
18. In Australia, if someone brings
“Yabbies” to a barbecue, what
would they be?

6. In his seminal book Ma Cuisine,

who recognized grilling as “the 19. What barbecue favorite is often
remote starting point, the very called the “poor man’s lobster”?
genesis of our art”?
20. Which is the most environment-
7. Which of these is the key friendly barbecue fuel?
ingredient in a jerk marinade:
Scotch bonnet chili pepper,
chipotle, cayenne pepper?

8. New York was once famous for its

turtle barbecues. True or False?

9. Ribfest, a festival with vendors

selling barbecue beef, pork ribs,
pulled-pork sandwiches, chicken,
coleslaw, and more, occurs
where in the world?

10. What is a classic kettle?

11. What is ash-roasting also

known as?

12. What is a wood-fired oven’s

typical cooking temperature?

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Perfect Pasta

1. Which of these is NOT a type of
pasta: balam, barbina, bucatini?
2. In Italy, how is the flour best
suited to making pasta labeled?
3. What ingredient is added to pasta
to make it black?
4. What shape are rotelle?
5. What shape are rigatoni?
6. Well-cooked pasta that is firm
but not hard is described as
“al dente.” What is the literal
translation of this phrase?
15. The Italian saying gli spaghetti
amano la compagnia is a reminder
to do what when cooking spaghetti?
16. The name of which pasta literally
translates as “little ears”?
17. What is the Italian name for
angel-hair pasta?
18. What shape is farfalle pasta?
19. Fresh pasta cannot be frozen.
True or False?
20. What does the word
“gnocchi” mean?

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7. Semi di melone are traditionally
cooked as part of what?

8. Ancient Romans cooked a form

of pasta. True or False?

9. Which of these is commonly used

to color pasta: arugula, spinach, basil?

10. Marco Polo discovered pasta.

True or False?

11. In October 2010, a Guinness

world record was set for the
longest strand of pasta ever
made. How long was it?

12. What shape is cavatappi pasta?

13. Which of these types of pasta

comes in tiny, rice-shaped
noodles: ditalli, stelle, orzo?

14. What pasta dish is made

from fettuccine, butter,
cream, Parmesan, and parsley?

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Spicy Secrets

1. What is the world’s most
expensive spice?
2. Cardamom is the third-most-
expensive spice in the world.
True or False?
16. Which spice still comes almost
exclusively from Central America
and the West Indies?
17. Nutmeg and mace grow together
in the same fruit. True or False?

3. Which of these is the odd one 18. What is the literal translation
out: rosemary, nigella, poppy? of garam masala?

4. What grows on a curry tree? 19. Which spice is said to have

5. What’s the most-cultivated
spice crop in the world?
6. Which spice is the main ingredient
of the Middle East candy halva?
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anti-cancer properties?
20. In February 2011, which chili
was briefly recognized as the
world’s hottest by Guinness
World records?

7. What is the hottest part of a chili? 21. What is chorizo spiced with?

8. Mace spice is an ingredient in 22. From which part of a tree is

mace spray tear gas. True or False? cinnamon obtained?

9. What kind of pepper grows on 23. What is barbed wire grass,

a Brazilian pepper tree? fever grass, and oily heads
also known as?
10. Which spice would you find
in Worcestershire sauce? 24. On what do nutmegs grow?

11. Coriander is commonly used 25. What color is ground sumac?

as both a herb and a spice.
True or False?

12. Licorice is used to flavor tobacco

and toothpaste. True or False?

13. Cardamon seeds are native

to which countries?

14. Which of these spices

doesn’t grow on trees:
tar anise, cloves, nigella?

15. Zedoary is also known

as what?

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Edible Mushroom
1. Caesar's mushroom was a
favorite with Roman emperors.
True or False?
2. Giant puffballs regularly weigh
more than 9 lb (4 kg). True
or False?
3. In the spring and summer months,
what type of weather indicates the
best time to look for mushrooms?
4. What is the best time of day to
search for fungi?
5. Which of these mushrooms can
you eat raw: field, wood, morel?
6. Which of these fungi would be
easiest to spot due to its bright
yellow or orange coloring:
chicken-of-the-woods, horn
of plenty, honey fungus?
7. Which of these would you find
growing on tree stumps: parasol
mushrooms, cauliflower fungus,
red-staining mushrooms?
8. Which of these would you find
growing on patches of bare soil:
shaggy parasols, common
puffballs, hedgehog fungus?
9. Which mushroom is also known as
the “fried-chicken mushroom”?
10. Which of these could help
you to identify types of
mushroom: cetologist,
entomologist, mycologist?
11. Which mushroom is thought
to be the largest living organism
on Earth?
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QUIZ 354
12. Which of these mushrooms is
NOT poisonous: deceiver, lawn
funnel cap, brown roll rim?
13. White truffle is a mushroom. T
rue or False?
14. White truffle is one of the most
expensive foods in the world.
Where would you find it?
15. When might you find a chicken-of-
the-woods mushroom?
16. Mushrooms create their own
wind. True or False?
17. A morel mushroom is safe to eat
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only if cooked. True or False?
18. Which of these mushrooms is better
suited to breaking rather than cutting,
due to its brittleness: hedgehog
fungus, boletes, giant puffballs?
19. Which of these fungi does NOT
grow in fairy rings: St. George’s
mushroom, summer truffle,
fairy ring champignon?
20. Which of these mushrooms
should be cleaned by washing
rather than wiping: saffron
milk cap, cauliflower fungus,
wood blewit?
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The Tomato Story

1. Where did tomatoes originate? 15. What can irregular watering

2. Tomatoes grow wild in the
Galápagos Islands. How are they
thought to have arrived there?
3. How many varieties of tomato
exist today?
of a tomato plant lead to?
16. What are green tomatoes?
17. The optimal temperature for
pollination is 65.3°F (18.5°C).
True or False?

4. The tomato is also called a 18. Which fruit encourages green

“love apple.” True or False? tomatoes to ripen if you place
them in a bowl together?
5. Standard tomatoes are also
known as what? 19. When drying tomatoes, you
should keep the seeds in. True
6. Tomatoes are usually classified or False?
according to what?
20. How are fried green
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7. A bush-type tomato is a plant that tomatoes cooked?

grows to a fixed height. True or False?

8. Which beneficial carotenoid

hydrocarbon is found in tomatoes?

9. Which of these is NOT a variety

of tomato: Pink Ping Pong, Legend,
Hidden Rose?

10. How many seed chambers does

a standard tomato have?

11. Which of these sauces is NOT

tomato-based: salsa romesco,
marinara, alfredo?

12. What is the knuckle of a tomato?

13. Along with tomato, what are the

other classic ingredients used in
insalata caprese?

14. What are you doing with young

plants when you are “hardening
them off ”?

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What’s in Season

1. Honey contains a high percentage 14. Dull or wrinkled skin on an

of water—how high? eggplant indicates what?

2. How long can you freeze oriental
greens for?
3. La Tomatina—a tomato-throwing
festival held each year in Spain—
celebrates the end of the tomato-
growing season. True or False?
4. Which of these is NOT in season
in the autumn: cucumbers,
carrots, pumpkins?
5. If you were clamping potatoes,
what would you be doing?
15. In which month of the year
do grouse begin to appear
on restaurant menus?
16. At what time of year are soft
fruits ready to be picked?
17. Which of these is NOT in
season in the summer: apricots,
strawberries, rhubarb?
18. What are new shoots on seed
potatoes called?
19. When are bananas in season?

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6. When are hazelnuts gathered?
20. Chivers Delight is a variety
7. Many root vegetables can be left of which fruit?
in the ground through the winter
months. True or False?

8. You should harvest the central

flower head of a broccoli when
it is as big as a child’s head.
True or False?

9. When is the asparagus season,

spring or autumn?

10. Runner beans are in season in

the spring. True or False?

11. Bottling fruit in alcohol is a good

way to preserve your harvest.
Which of these fruits wouldn’t
work well: grapes, pears, apples?

12. Which of these is NOT in season in

the winter: onions, leeks, parsnips?

13. When should you pick cranberries?

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World Cuisine
1. Fugu is a deadly seafood. What is it?
2. Ortolans are a now-banned “delicacy”
eaten with a napkin over the head to
preserve the aroma. In which country
were they mainly eaten?
3. Why is it unwise to eat large
barracuda fish?
4. Why are durian fruits banned from
public transportation in Singapore?
5. Jansson’s temptation is made from
potatoes and anchovies. In which
country is it popular?
6. Which city has a street named
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Snake Alley because it specializes
in snake-based dishes?
7. Kimchi is served with almost every
meal in which country?
8. Methi is a popular herb in India.
What is it?
9. What is real bird’s nest soup
made from?
10. What is the main ingredient of the
Swedish speciality surströmming?
11. Manchego is a hard cheese
often served with quince jelly
in which country?
12. What is the name of the traditional
Greek dish of slow-cooked lamb
on the bone, marinated in garlic
and lemon, originally cooked
in a pit oven?
13. Onglet, popular in France, is
a type of what?
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14. What is the main ingredient
of amchoor powder, used in
North Indian dishes such as
chana masala?
15. Piri piri is a very hot chili sauce
first made in which country?
16. What is ceviche made from?
17. Alinea is one of the best restaurants
in the US. Which city is it in?
18. Kopi luwak, originally from
Indonesia, is the world’s most
expensive type of what?
19. How old is a thousand-year egg?
20. What is Oh-toro?
21. In which country would you find
deep-fried tarantula on the menu?
22. What does the Mexican dish
escamoles contain?
23. Which of these is NOT a
nickname of the highly toxic,
foul-smelling Norwegian lutefisk:
fork destroyer, eating death,
weapon of mass destruction?
24. Where would you find raw blood
soup, consisting of chicken gizzards
and congealed duck blood, topped
with peanuts and herbs?
25. Casu marzu is an Italian sheep’s-
milk cheese crawling with live
fly larvae. True or False?
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Global Cheeses
1. Which of these animals’ milk is
NOT used to make cheese: buffalo,
reindeer, pig?
2. Which of these is NOT part of the
traditional cheese-making process:
steaming, maturing, fermenting?
3. Valdeon blue cheese is also
known as what?
4. Which is the most consumed
cheese in the world?
5. Which of these is a soft cheese:
Tunworth, Beaufort, Pecorino Sardo?
6. What are the features of a “washed”
cheese: white with no rind, sticky
and pungent, blue mold?
7. Which of the following is a type
of blue cheese: Blue Heaven, Blue
Mon, Blue Monday?
8. What cheese would you have in
a Greek salad?
9. What is traditionally drunk
with Langres?
10. You should not eat the rind of
Camembert. True or False?
11. Any flavoring can be added to
cheese. True or False?
12. In which region of Italy is
Gorgonzola mostly made?
13. Which of these cheeses is NOT
made in England: Stinking Bishop,
Wigmore, Gubbeen?
14. What are curds?
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QUIZ 358
15. What is distinctive about
Emmental cheese?
16. Which cheese is traditionally made
from buffalo’s milk?
17. What is Halloumi usually
preserved in?
18. Which of the following British
cheeses has PDO (Protected
Designation of origin) status:
Dorset Blue Vinny, Celtic
Promise, Ragstone?
19. Which cheese was the 2011
Supreme Champion at the
International Cheese Awards?
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20. Evidence of cheese making has
been found as far back as what?
21. The word “cheese” comes from the
Latin word caseus. True or False?
22. In what year was cheese rationed
during World War II in Britain?
23. Stilton is produced in which three
counties of England?
24. In what year was Port Salut first
produced by Trappist monks?
25. What did French philosopher
Diderot call the “King of Cheeses”?
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Food Culture

1. Georges Auguste Escoffier wrote 15. Paul Bocuse’s l’Auberge du Pont

Le Guide Culinaire. True or False? de Collonges is in which city?

2. Who is credited with establishing
a distinctive French cuisine in the
17th century?
3. Marie-Antoine Carême was the chef
for which French emperor?
4. What is the literal definition of
“haute” in haute cuisine?
5. What kind of beans are a main
ingredient of cassoulet?
16. What is the meat traditionally used
in pot-au-feu?
17. Foie gras is made from which kind
of geese or duck offal?
18. Truffles grow aboveground.
True or False?
19. Which of the following is NOT
a usual ingredient of Herbes de
Provence: chive, thyme, rosemary?

6. Coq au vin is traditionally a 20. Fougasse is a type of what?

dish from which region?
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7. In what year was the first

Michelin Guide published?

8. The English translation is

“mouth amuser.” What is the
French culinary term?

9. What kind of dish is bouillabaisse?

10. Which French chef founded

Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons?

11. Modern Nouvelle Cuisine appeared

in which decade?

12. What was medieval chef

Guillaume Tirel known as?

13. Occupying Russian troops in

1815 requesting food “quickly”
are purported to have given
the name to which French
cuisine term?

14. What are escargots?

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Travelers’ Tastes
1. Huhu is an endemic beetle and
a traditional food that is said to
taste like buttery chicken from
which country?
2. Cicadas can be eaten deep-fried
or stir-fried. True or False?
3. Witchetty grubs were the staple
diet for many Aboriginal women
and children. When eaten raw,
they possess a taste similar to
almonds. True or False?
4. Which Japanese delicacy consists
of small pieces of meat in a brown
viscous paste made of the internal
organs of marine animals?
5. Shā guō yú tóu is what kind of soup?
6. Hákarl, fermented shark hung out
to dry for four to five months, is a
dish native to which country?
7. In the Philippines, this condiment
is made of partially or completely
fermented fish/shrimp and salt.
What is it called?
8. The swim bladder is an organ that
fish use to control their buoyancy
and is also a delicacy often used
in soups in which country?
20. Alligator on a stick is chunks
9. Pig’s blood cake from Taiwan
doesn’t really contain any pig’s
blood at all. True or False?
10. Nicaraguans are known to eat
which type of eggs?
11. Scorpion soup is a delicacy in
which country?
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QUIZ 360
12. Balut is a fertilized duck embryo that
is boiled alive and eaten in the shell.
It is commonly sold as street food in
which Southeast Asian country?
13. Raake orret is trout left in water
containing sugar and salt, which
is then stored at a cool temperature.
Which country does this dish
belong to?
14. What does the Peruvian dish
of cuy contain?
15. Which bugs toasted with garlic,
lime juice, and salt are commonly
eaten in certain areas of Mexico?
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16. Svio is a dish of boiled sheep’s head,
prepared in which country?
17. Various glands of an animal are used
in a Latin American dish called
Mollejas. What is its culinary name?
18. In Jewish cuisine, rendered
chicken, goose, or pork fat is
used for frying or as a spread
on bread. What is it called?
19. Which dish includes pork,
mushrooms, and bamboo shoots
wrapped in a pancake?
of deep-fried alligator found
in which continent?
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FILM & TV

Film buff? TV titan?

From Australian and Indian cinema
to Hitchcock and Bond films,
The Simpsons to Iron Man,
see just how much you really know
about the small and big screens.
FILM & TV

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 EASY QUIZ 361

American Soap Operas

1. How many soap operas have been
produced in the US?
2. On which ranch does the action
on Dallas take place?
3. Who played the character of
Amanda Woodward on 1990s
soap opera Melrose Place?
4. Which TV soap opera revolved
around feuding factions in the
Californian wine industry?
14. The soap opera All My Children
first aired in 1970 and played its
final episode when?
15. The Young and the Restless began
life in 1973 and is still running
today. True or False?
16. Which TV soap opera is “like sand
through the hourglass”?
17. Which actor played Bobby on
the soap opera Dallas?

5. In which glamorous 1990s soap 18. What happened to the 2009

opera did Dallas actress Linda remake of popular 1990s soap
Gray star for its brief duration? opera Melrose Place?

6. TV soap opera Santa Barbara first 19. In which year did soap opera Dallas
hit TV screens in 1983. In which make a return to TV screens?
year did it air its final episode?
20. Which red-headed actress has
7. In which soap opera did Joan Collins appeared on both the Melrose
star between 1981 and 1989? Place and Desperate Housewives
soap operas?
8. Which character on Dallas was
dubbed “the poisoned dwarf”?

9. Which long-term soap opera

focused on couples and conflicts
in a Californian cul-de-sac?
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10. Which soap opera was the main

rival to Dallas in the 1980s?

11. Which medical soap opera began

in 1963 and is still running today?

12. American soap opera As the

World Turns aired on television
for 54 years. True of False?

13. Which Dallas character was the

original protagonist in soap opera
spinoff Knots Landing?

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Downton Abbey

1. The Crawleys’ estate is located in 16. What was Miss O’Brien’s job
what part of England? in the household?

2. Which building is used for the 17. What momentous news does Lord
exterior shots? Grantham announce at his annual
garden party?
3. Who is the creator of
Downton Abbey? 18. Who jilts Lady Edith at the altar?

4. Which character was asked to 19. Which character had a budding

go to America to cook for the romance with a grocer?
Levinson family?
20. Which real-life opera singer made
5. Who is the middle daughter of an appearance in the fourth season?
Lord and Lady Grantham?

6. What were seen atop some of the

village houses in the first season?

7. Which character does Hugh

Bonneville play?

8. Who faces a cancer scare in the

second season?

9. Rose’s father has a well-known

nickname. What is it?

10. Who plays the role of

Violet Crawley?
FILM & TV

11. Which tragic event leads Matthew

Crawley to become heir to the
Downton estate and title?

12. Who rescues Lady Edith when a

fire breaks out in her bedroom?

13. What is Mrs. Hughes’s first name?

14. What is the name of the Crawley

family dog?

15. What is Violet Crawley’s title?

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British Sitcoms
1. Complete the name of this hit
sitcom: Only Fools and…
2. Who played Ben Harper in
My Family?
3. In which branch of the armed
forces was Dad’s Army set?
4. Which sitcom features three
precocious children and their
mom and dad?
5. Name the sitcom that portrayed
the French Resistance.
6. Who played the Vicar of Dibley?
7. What was the name of the hotel
run by John Cleese in the sitcom
of the same name?
8. What was the name of the character
played by Ronnie Barker in Porridge?
9. Who did Ronnie Barker play
in Open All Hours?
10. Who co-starred with Ronnie
Barker in the same sitcom,
playing the part of Granville?
11. Red Dwarf was the name of which
type of transportation?
12. How many seasons of Blackadder
were made?
13. Men Behaving Badly was first
shown on ITV. True or False?
14. Which sitcom featured a different
celebrity in each episode who
played an exaggerated version
of him- or herself?
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QUIZ 363
15. Porridge was filmed in Irish
Kilmainham Gaol. True or False?
16. Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous
was played by which actress?
17. Where did the priests in
Father Ted live?
18. Who played Tom Good in
The Good Life?
19. What was the name of the
department store in Are You
Being Served?
20. It Ain’t Half Hot Mum was set
in which Asian countries?
21. Which show featured the
character Daffyd Thomas?
22. Which elderly character could
clear a room just by saying
“During the war…”?
23. The catchphrase “I don’t believe
it!” comes from which sitcom?
24. In Rising Damp, what is the name
of the miserly landlord?
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25. In The Young Ones, what sort of
pet does Vivian own?
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Animated Films

1. What is the name of the cowboy
hero in Toy Story?
2. The film Inside Out features five
emotions: Joy, Sadness, Anger,
Fear, and Disgust. True or False?
3. What is Shrek?
4. In Happy Feet, what is Mumble’s
special talent?
5. Who wrote the book that Horton
Hears a Who! is based on?
6. What is the name of the studio that
made films such as Toy Story and
The Incredibles?
7. Jackie Chan voiced a character in
Kung Fu Panda. True or False?
8. Asterix is an animated hero created
in Belgium and which other country?
9. Watership Down featured a cast
of rabbits. True or False?
10. What is the Japanese term for
animated films?
FILM & TV
16. Who is the hero of A Bug’s Life?
17. What does Carl tie to his house to
travel to South America in Up?
18. Lemurs are featured in which hit
animated film from 2005?
19. Which new main character was
introduced in Toy Story 4?
20. What is the name of the kingdom
where Anna and Elsa live?
21. Which film features singing
and dancing penguins?
22. Which was the first full-length
animated film to be released?
23. In which film do the characters
Sebastian, Eric, and Ursula appear?
24. What are the names of the main
character and his helpers in the
Despicable Me films?
25. The Lord of the Rings has never
been made into an animated film.
True or False?

11. Who was Roger Rabbit

married to?

12. What was the first fully

computer-animated feature film?

13. What kind of fish was Nemo?

14. Which film features the villain

Cruella De Vil?

15. Complete the name of this

animated duo: Wallace and…

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Billy Wilder

1. Billy Wilder won two Academy
Awards for Best Director. True
or False?
2. One of the Academy Awards Billy
Wilder won was for The Apartment.
For which film did he win the other?
3. Wilder’s grave features the epitaph:
“I’m a writer, but then nobody’s
perfect.” Which of his films is this
line adapted from?
14. Who plays C. R. “Mac” MacNamara
in One, Two, Three?
15. Where is Stalag 17 set?
16. Which item of clothing does the
gang boss in Some Like It Hot take
for his nickname?
17. In which film does Ginger Rogers
disguise herself as a young girl
named Su-Su?

4. Who plays aviator Charles 18. Sabrina features which actress

Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis? caught between the affections
of Humphrey Bogart and
5. Which Wilder film is narrated by William Holden?
a dead man?
19. Which Wilder film is based on an
6. Billy Wilder’s first directorial project Agatha Christie short story?
was in German. True or False?
20. When was Billy Wilder’s final film
7. Apart from Some Like It Hot, which Buddy Buddy released?
other film starring Marilyn Monroe
was directed by Billy Wilder?

8. What is Marilyn Monroe’s character

name in Some Like It Hot?

9. Which song does Ariane hum

repeatedly in Love in the Afternoon?
FILM & TV

10. Who stars alongside Shirley

MacLaine in Irma la Douce?

11. In which year was The Apartment

first released in cinemas?

12. Which team does Luther “Boom

Boom” Jackson play for in The
Fortune Cookie?

13. Shirley MacLaine plays a

receptionist in The Apartment.
True or False?

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Disney Films

1. As of 2019, how many animated 15. Walt Disney provided the

feature films had Disney made?
2. What was the name of Mickey
Mouse’s debut film (with sound)?
3. In The Princess Diaries, Mia
Thermopolis is the heir to the
throne of which fictional
European country?
4. What happened to Pinocchio
when he lied?
5. Timothy Q. Mouse helped which
character to fly?
6. Who was Bambi’s best friend?
7. Who wrote the book that Alice in
Wonderland was based on?
8. The music in Sleeping Beauty was
based on work by which composer?
9. On which traditional fairy tale was
the film Tangled based?
10. Who wrote the music and lyrics
for The Lion King?
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original voice for Mickey
Mouse. True or False?
16. What is Sully’s full name
in Monsters, Inc.?
17. In Winnie the Pooh, what type
of animal is Eeyore?
18. What is the name of the dog in Up?
19. Which planet gave its name to a
Disney character?
20. What is the name of Mickey
Mouse’s long-term sweetheart?
21. What is the name of the wicked
queen in Enchanted?
22. In Robin Hood, what is the name
of the snake?
23. How many sisters does Ariel have?
24. What were Mickey and Minnie
Mouse’s original names?
25. In Aladdin, for how many years
does the genie say he’s been

11. What did King Louie desire trapped in the lamp?

in The Jungle Book?

12. Complete the title of this live-

action Disney hit movie: Honey,
I Shrunk the…

13. In Beauty and the Beast, which

wing of the castle is Belle forbidden
from going to?

14. Toy Story was a Disney production.

True or False?

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Horror Films
1. In The Omen, the central character
was named Damien. True or False?
2. Name the British film studio that
specialized in horror during the
1960s and 1970s.
3. Jamie Lee Curtis starred in which
horror movie?
4. Which horror star provided
the rap for Michael Jackson’s
“Thriller” single?
5. In which city was The Exorcist set?
6. Who directed the zombie classic
Dawn of the Dead?
7. The Amityville Horror claimed
to be based on real events.
True or False?
8. Who wrote the story on which
the film Carrie was based?
9. Which 1986 film stars Jeff Goldblum
as a scientist who invents “telepods”?
10. Complete the name of this film:
The Blair_________ Project.
11. What was the name of the killer
in the Friday the 13th series?
12. Who directed The Shining?
13. How did Jack Nicholson’s character
die in The Shining?
14. Arachnophobia featured which
killer creepy-crawlies?
15. Who played the monster in the
1931 Frankenstein film?
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QUIZ 367
16. Which 1999 film starred Brendan
Fraser and Rachel Weisz?
17. Where was Bela Lugosi born?
18. Complete the name of this film:
An American Werewolf in…
19. Which British horror veteran said,
“There seems to be an insatiable
audience for this type of film”?
20. Which film features the story
of two policemen who go after
a serial killer with a Biblical
theme to his murders?
21. Which Friends star appears in
the film Scream?
22. In A Nightmare on Elm
Street, what animal is seen
in Tina’s nightmare?
23. Who is the main character
in the film Psycho?
24. In which film does a young boy get
dragged under his bed by a clown
doll that comes to life?
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25. In Friday the 13th VI, how does
Jason come back to life?
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Kids’ Films

1. Complete the name of this series 14. Super Mario Bros. is based on a
of movies: Home… computer game. True or False?

2. Who stars as the daughter in the 15. In what year was the original
1976 Freaky Friday? Wizard of Oz film made?

3. Lionel Jeffries directed which 16. Complete the title of this film:
1970 children’s classic? Diary of a Wimpy…

4. Who are Carmen and Juni Cortez?
5. The Night at the Museum is
set in the American Museum
of Natural what?
17. A Volkswagen Beetle stars in
which film series?
18. What kind of animal is Aslan
in The Chronicles of Narnia?

6. Miley Cyrus stars in which 2009 19. Who stars as Gulliver in the 2010
film adapted from her hit TV series? adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels?

7. In which Harry Potter film do giant
spiders appear?
8. What happens to Nigel Thornberry
in Rugrats Go Wild to make him act
like a young child?
20. Which of these painters did NOT
give their name to a Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtle: Leonardo,
Rubens, Raphael?

9. What was special about one of

E.T.’s fingers?

10. Who plays Willy Wonka in the

2005 version of Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory?
FILM & TV

11. Which cat character, featured in

a newspaper cartoon strip, has
starred in a number of films?

12. Babe tells the story of a sheep-

herding piglet. True or False?

13. James Bond novelist Ian Fleming

wrote a book that inspired which
movie about a car?

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Comedies

1. Shaun of the Dead is a spoof 15. Duck Soup stars which band
of what kind of horror genre? of brothers?

2. Who is the bumbling detective 16. What type of music is on

in The Pink Panther?
3. What is Marilyn Monroe’s
character’s name in Some Like It Hot?
4. The Hangover is set in Las Vegas.
True or False?
the soundtrack of O Brother,
Where Art Thou?
17. Which actor plays Alex “Hitch”
Hitchens in Hitch?
18. Who directed Manhattan?

5. In Trading Places, what job is 19. What is the name of the pilot hero
given to Eddie Murphy? in Airplane!?

6. Who stars in the film 20. What words linked the titles of
Groundhog Day? 29 British comedy films produced
between 1958 and 1979?
7. What was “Baby” in Bringing
Up Baby?

8. Who are Walter Matthau and

Jack Lemmon in a 1968 film?

9. Steve Martin made his name with

which movie?

10. Charlie Chaplin was born in

London. True or False?

11. Which London suburb gave its

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name to a studio that made a

series of comedies between
1947 and 1957?

12. Nigel Tufnel is the guitarist in

which film band?

13. Complete the name of this Monty

Python film: Life of…

14. Mike Myers, the star of Austin

Powers, was born in Scotland.
True or False?

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James Bond

1. James Bond’s gun is a Walther 14. What make is James Bond’s

PPK. True or False?
2. What is M’s assistant called?
3. James Bond could never manage
without his gadgets. What is
the code name of the man who
supplies them to him?
4. What is James Bond’s code name?
remote-control car in
Tomorrow Never Dies?
15. What is the name of the American
physicist who helps James Bond in
The World Is Not Enough?
16. What is the name of the
character played by Madonna
in Die Another Day?

5. Which villain does James 17. What is the name of the Treasury
Bond come up against in agent who accompanies James
Crab Key, Jamaica? Bond in Casino Royale?

6. What is the name of Auric 18. What kind of car does James Bond
Goldfinger’s manservant, win at cards in Casino Royale?
who has a fondness for hats?
19. Who does James Bond team up with
7. Emilio Largo, the villain in in Quantum of Solace?
Thunderball, has a fondness
for which underwater menace? 20. How many James Bond films did
Roger Moore make?
8. In which film does James Bond
fall in love with and marry
Teresa di Vicenzo?

9. The Man with the Golden Gun

is also known as whom?
FILM & TV

10. What is the name of the main

villain in A View to a Kill?

11. Kara Milovy, James Bond’s love

interest in The Living Daylights,
is famous for playing the violin.
True or False?

12. What is the name of the base

that is attacked at the beginning
of GoldenEye?

13. What is Alec Trevelyan’s MI5

code name in GoldenEye?

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War Films

1. Complete the name of this war
movie classic: Saving Private…
2. Steve McQueen was reportedly the
original choice to play Willard in
Apocalypse Now. True or False?
3. Enemy at the Gates portrays the
battle for which city?
4. All Quiet on the Western Front
is set during which conflict?
14. Which film tells the story of a
Jewish musician’s struggle to
survive in war-torn Poland?
15. Which film tells the story of a
US helicopter crash and rescue
in Somalia in 1993?
16. The Longest Day is about
which day?
17. Who plays Achilles in 2004’s Troy?

5. Who plays Cromwell in the 18. Which film celebrates a black

1970 film of the same name? Civil War regiment?

6. Complete the name of this war 19. The Allied operation Market
movie classic: The Charge of Garden in World War II is
the Light… portrayed in which 1977 film?

7. During which war is the above 20. John Wayne stars in the 1960
film set? version of The Alamo. True or False?

8. The Initiation Game tells the

story of how Alan Turing and
his team cracked the Enigma
code during World War II.
True or False?

9. Complete this title: Bridge on

the River…
FILM & TV

10. Which African people gave its

name to a film that portrays a
huge battle in 1879?

11. Mel Gibson’s film The Patriot is set

during the American Revolution.
True or False?

12. Which commander is the main

character in The Desert Fox?

13. Who directed the film 1917?

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TV Trivia

1. For how many years did Johnny
Carson host The Tonight Show, the
most successful late-night network
talk show?
2. What are the last ever words that
Frasier Crane says in the final
episode of Frasier?
12. The Simpsons became the longest-
running prime-time animated
series in US television history
in 1997. What show previously
held the record?
13. Who is the lead guitarist in The
Partridge Family?

3. What is Mike Brady’s profession in 14. On the hit sitcom Friends, what are
The Brady Bunch? Rachel’s favorite flowers?

4. Which All in the Family spin-off 15. Which high school do the talented
ran for four seasons until 1983? kids from Glee attend?

5. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
was one of the first to feature an
independent career woman. What
is the name of Mary’s boss?
6. Which long-running character
from the M*A*S*H television
series is played by another
actor in the pilot episode?
7. A record-breaking fifty million
American households tuned in for
the final episode of M*A*S*H.
What is its name?
16. What are Sheldon’s and Leonard’s
last names on The Big Bang Theory?
17. In which year was Breaking Bad
first shown?
18. In Sabrina the Teenage Witch,
Sabrina has a magical talking cat
that sometimes gives her advice.
What is the cat’s name?
19. Which classic Seinfeld episode
from season five revolves around
a particular item of clothing?

8. In the eighth season of Roseanne, 20. What is the name of the local
FILM & TV

Dan and Roseanne have a fourth hangout in Happy Days?

child named Jerry Garcia Connor.
True or False?

9. Who shoots J. R. in Dallas?

10. The affable drinker Norm Peterson

who props up the bar at Cheers is
actually named Hillary; Norman is
his middle name. True or False?

11. In South Park, the trip over Niagara

Falls in a barrel finally kills Kenny.
True or False?

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Classic Christmas Movies
1. In White Christmas, where is the
inn that the couples try to save?
2. In the 1966 animated classic
How the Grinch Stole Christmas,
Boris Karloff is the voice of
the Grinch but does not do
the singing. True or False?
3. In the 2004 animated box-office
hit The Polar Express, what is the
name of the young boy?
4. In A Christmas Story, what
does the narrator Ralphie want
for Christmas?
5. The title song of White Christmas
was written by Irving Brecher.
True or False?
6. In Home Alone, where are Kevin’s
family going on vacation when they
leave him “home alone”?
7. In The Muppet Christmas Carol,
Kermit the Frog plays the part of
which Dickens character?
8. While shooting the 1944 film Meet
Me in St. Louis, Judy Garland met
and later married whom?
20. How many couples do we follow in
9. In Planes, Trains and Automobiles,
Del Griffith is a salesman who
sells what?
10. In the 1947 movie Miracle on
34th Street, what do Kris Kringle’s
lawyers use to prove that he is
really Santa Claus?
11. Who is the voice of Scrooge in
the 2010 animated version of
A Christmas Carol?
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12. In It’s a Wonderful Life, George
Bailey’s guardian angel is
named what?
13. In Elf, Buddy ends up in the North
Pole because as a baby he stowed
away in Santa’s sack. True or False?
14. In Frosty the Snowman, what
garment brings the snowman to life?
15. The 1944 film noir Christmas
Holiday is based on a book by
which author?
16. In the 1996 film Jingle All the Way
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger,
what present does he need to find
for his son?
17. During the filming of the 2000
adaptation of How the Grinch
Stole Christmas, how many
candy canes were used?
18. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the film
Bad Santa. What is the name
of the boy he befriends?
19. How many characters does Tom
Hanks play in The Polar Express?
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Richard Curtis’s film Love Actually?
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1980s Films

1. Who stars as Ferris Bueller in
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ?
2. What is the name of Bill and Ted’s
band in their Excellent Adventure?
3. Who directed The Outsiders?
4. Who plays Andie Walsh in
Pretty in Pink?
5. Diner is set in which city?
20. What year did Marty McFly go back
6. What is the theme tune
to Flashdance?
7. What is the name of
Prince’s 1984 film?
16. What does the “E” in E.T. stand for?
17. Which actress stars as Lisa in the
1985 film Weird Science?
18. In which 1984 film do Dan
Ackroyd and partners set up
a unique removal firm?
19. Who stars as Axel Foley in Beverly
Hills Cop?
to in Back to the Future?
21. Who directed Indiana Jones
and the Temple of Doom and
The Color Purple?

8. Tom Cruise was born in Canada.
True or False?
9. Who does Val Kilmer play in
Top Gun?
10. Where do the “Breakfast Club”
students meet for detention?
11. What name was given to
the group of young actors who
starred in many of the 1980s
FILM & TV
22. Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, and
Geena Davis star in which classic
directed by Tim Burton?
23. “Greed Is Good” is the motto from
which 1980s Michael Douglas film?
24. In which film is Jennifer Beals
a steel-mill welder by day and a
dancer by night?
25. Which film sees a robot called

teen films? “Number 5” escape from a secret

research center?
12. What has been banned in the
film Footloose?

13. Stand by Me is based on a story

by which novelist?

14. The first Indiana Jones movie

is Raiders of the Lost Ark.
True or False?

15. Who is the real Susan in

Desperately Seeking Susan?

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Children’s TV Shows

1. Who created The Muppet Show? 15. What is Dora?

2. What is the name of Muppet 16. What is the purpose of Mickey

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew’s long-
suffering assistant?
3. Who lives in a burrow on
Wimbledon Common, London?
4. What is the motto of the Wombles?
5. Which show features the
characters Dipsy, Laa-Laa,
Po, and Tinky Winky?
20. What is the name of the character
6. Which 1970s TV show stars
Big Bird?
Mouse’s Clubhouse?
17. What are inhabitants of
Waverly Place?
18. Who communicate with whistles
and eat green soup supplied by
the Soup Dragon?
19. Who travels in a blue police box?
first created from an old coat and
ping-pong-ball eyes?

7. Which cartoon takes place in the

underwater city of Bikini Bottom?

8. When did The Simpsons first

appear on TV?

9. Who created The Simpsons?

10. What instrument does Zak play

in Zingzillas?

11. What children’s production

company is represented by
FILM & TV

an orange “splat” and with

its name in white?

12. When did Scooby-Doo first bound

onto our TV screens?

13. Which show features puppets Zippy,

George, and Bungle, and Geoffrey’s
attempts to calm them down and
keep the peace?

14. Who is an average teenager by

day and a secret pop superstar
by night?

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The Oscars

1. The Oscar statuette is made of 15. Who plays the lead role in the
solid gold. True or False? Oscar-winning film Rocky?

2. How old was Tatum O’Neal
when she won the Best Supporting
Actress award?
3. How many times has a single
film won 11 Oscars?
4. Who won the Best Actress
award four times?
5. Which film won the first
Best Animated Feature award
in 2001?
16. Complete the name of this Oscar-
winning movie: Dances with…
17. Oscar winners are not allowed to
keep their awards. True or False?
18. How many Oscars did the science-
fiction classic Metropolis win?
19. Which movie won Best Picture
in 2011?
20. How many Oscars did Titanic win?

6. How many Oscars did the film

Citizen Kane win?

7. What links George C. Scott and

Marlon Brando?

8. La Dolce Vita won which Oscar

in 1960?

9. What other name are the Oscars

known as?

10. Who won Best Actor for 1934’s

It Happened One Night?
FILM & TV

11. Who was the female star in

It Happened One Night?

12. Who was the first African

American man to win the
Best Actor award?

13. Which movie was the first sequel

to win the Best Picture award?

14. The Wizard of Oz lost out to

which movie for Best Picture
in 1939?

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Science-Fiction Films and TV Shows
1. Who directed 2001: A
Space Odyssey?
2. The theme music from which
film can be heard being played
by the mother ship in Close
Encounters of the Third Kind?
3. What is the name of the planet
in Avatar where the Na’vi live?
4. Who stars as Barbarella?
5. Which popular 1980s band
was named after one of the
characters in Barbarella?
6. In which 2013 film does
Sandra Bullock star with
George Clooney?
7. Forbidden Planet is based on
which Shakespeare play?
8. The original Star Trek series is
set in which century?
9. With what fighting move did
Mr. Spock knock out his enemies?
10. Jeff Bridges plays Tron in the
original film of the same name.
True or False?
11. The line “You have 20 seconds to
comply” comes from which film?
12. Complete the film name: Close
Encounters of…
13. What are the alien enemies in
Starship Troopers called?
14. Which series of hit films is based
on the books of Pierre Boulle?
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15. Who does Mark Hamill play in
Star Wars?
16. What does Charlton Heston find
at the end of the first Planet of
the Apes film?
17. From which planet do the aliens
in War of the Worlds come from?
18. Transformers originated as a
Japanese toy. True or False?
19. Which film stars Gort the robot?
20. What is the name of the robot
in Futurama?
21. What is the name of the island in
the film Jurassic Park?
22. In the Alien film series, what is
the name of Ellen Ripley’s pet cat?
23. Blade Runner 2049 is set how many
years after the original film?
24. In Spaceballs, what does Lonestar
use to disable the enemy’s radar?
25. In The Martian, what event
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separates Matt Watney from the
original crew, making them think
he’s dead?
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Monsters in the Movies

1. Exposure to what causes 14. What is unusual about the monsters

Gremlins to die? in A Quiet Place?

2. Complete the movie title: Night 15. The mysterious “Soylent Green”
of the Living… wafers that people survive on in
the film of the same name are
3. Béla Lugosi’s most famous made from a type of man-eating
role was what? alien spinach. True or False?

4. The astronauts in 2001: A Space 16. In Halloween, the murderer’s name

Odyssey are threatened by their is the same as a leading comedy
onboard computer named what? star. What is it?

5. Complete the following movie title:
Attack of the 50-Foot…
6. Which movie features a monster
that turns its victims into trees
and foliage?
17. Complete the following movie title:
___________________ from the
Mummy’s Tomb.
18. In Cloverfield (2008), a monster
attacks which city?

7. Complete the following quote from 19. Both versions of Clash of

King Kong: “It was ______________ the Titans include the same
killed the Beast!” line: “Release the…”

8. Which character turns out to be the 20. In Monsters vs. Aliens (2009),
werewolf in the film Silver Bullet? what happens to Susan Murphy
on her wedding day?
9. Which pop star plays a vampire
opposite Catherine Deneuve in
The Hunger?
FILM & TV

10. What is the name of the red-haired

male doll that would rather kill
than play?

11. Which film released in 2019 has the

tagline: “…King of the Monsters”?

12. Complete the following movie title:

I Walked with…

13. Complete the following quote

from An American Werewolf in
London: “Have you ever talked
to a corpse? It’s ______________!”

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Disney Princesses
1. Snow White is the only princess to
get a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame. True or False?
2. What are the names of Cinderella’s
two ugly stepsisters?
3. To protect Princess Aurora from
the wicked queen, the three fairy
godmothers raise Aurora without
magic and call her what?
4. In The Little Mermaid, Ariel
saves Prince Eric from drowning.
True or False?
5. In Beauty and the Beast, how
does Belle prove to the townsfolk
that the Beast exists?
6. In Aladdin, what is the name of
Princess Jasmine’s pet tiger?
7. Pocahontas has a dream about
an object that is linked to her
future. What is the object in
her dream?
8. In Mulan, what item does
Grandmother Fa give to
Mulan for serenity?
9. What is the name of Tiana’s
restaurant, which she opens
at the end of The Princess
and the Frog?
10. In Sleeping Beauty, when Aurora
takes her place as a princess, her
dress is made by hand by her fairy
godmother Flora. True or False?
11. Pocahontas is the only
princess based on a real
person. True or False?
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12. What is the name of Belle’s
friend the talking teapot in
Beauty and the Beast?
13. Where does Princess Jasmine go
when she escapes from the palace
disguised as a commoner?
14. In The Princess and the Frog,
Tiana’s father is her biggest
inspiration. What is his name?
15. In The Little Mermaid, what is a
“dinglehopper” used for?
16. In Tangled, what is Flynn Rider’s
real name?
17. What reason does Gaston give for
wanting to marry Belle in Beauty
and the Beast?
18. In Mulan, what kind of creature
is Mushu?
19. What is the name of Pocahontas’s
tribe in America?
20. In Tangled, what happens
to Rapunzel’s hair when it
is cut short?
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Westerns

1. John Wayne made his breakthrough 15. Who plays the villainous Sheriff
in which film? Daggett in the Unforgiven?

2. Steven Spielberg directed The Outlaw 16. What is the title of John
Josey Wales. True or False? Wayne’s last film?

3. Complete the name of this classic
Western: The Man Who Shot
______________ Valance
4. How many Best Director Oscars
did Western legend John Ford win?
5. The song “Do Not Forsake Me Oh
My Darling” featured in which film?
17. Blazing Saddles was directed
by whom?
18. In early Westerns, the hero tends
to wear a white hat. True or False?
19. Paul Newman plays the Sundance
Kid in Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid. True or False?

6. Elvis Presley stars in the Western
titled Flaming Star. True or False?
7. Which valley has provided the
backdrop for many Westerns?
8. Bob Dylan plays Billy in
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
True or False?
9. Tombstone, the setting for several
Westerns, is in which state?
10. Kirk Douglas plays which
sharpshooting legend in Gunfight
FILM & TV
20. Which film was made to rival
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid at the box office?
21. Who plays “the ugly” character in
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
22. Which actress is rescued as an
adult in The Searchers, a film said
to be based on a real-life incident?
23. What is the title of the Western
directed by Quentin Tarantino
and released in 2013?

at the O.K. Corral? 24. Which Western stars Humphrey

Bogart as a gold prospector?
11. The Magnificent Seven is based
on which Japanese film? 25. Which actor directed Dances
with Wolves?
12. Who plays Rooster Cogburn in
the 1969 version of True Grit?

13. Roy Rogers rode the same famous

horse in all his pictures. What was
its name?

14. Clint Eastwood directed the

Western Unforgiven. True or False?

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American TV
1. Which main character in Grey’s
Anatomy dies in the season 5 finale?
2. In the season 7 premiere of
Weeds, where do we find four
of the main characters?
3. Why does Sookie, from True Blood,
have magical powers?
4. Which character in Glee dies in
the second season?
5. Which character gets the courage
to ask out Pam of The Office in
the final episode of season 3?
6. Tina Fey from 30 Rock was also
the head writer of Saturday Night
Live. True or False?
7. Who leaves Ashley in season
7 of The Bachelorette because
he was only there to promote
his business?
8. Who is Squidward Q. Tentacles?
9. Which Walker gets cheated on in
season 5 of Brothers and Sisters?
10. Which celebrity makes a guest
appearance in the season 6 finale
of Entourage?
11. Which one of Elena’s friends
turns into a vampire at the
beginning of season 2 of
The Vampire Diaries?
12. Who wrote the book on which
the show Westworld is based?
13. With what is Silver from 90210
diagnosed in season 1?
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QUIZ 381
14. What happens to Jason Street in
season 1 of Friday Night Lights
that leaves him paralyzed?
15. Mitchell and Cameron of Modern
Family are raising a baby named
Lawrence. True or False?
16. In which year was Arrested
Development canceled, before it
was later relaunched by Netflix?
17. Who is the first and only person
to win two editions of Survivor?
18. Which Desperate Housewife
is a former cheerleader for the
San Francisco 49ers?
19. Which two countries have been
visited most by contestants on
The Amazing Race?
20. Who hosts the first season
of Top Chef ?
21. Which star of Sex and the City
was a last-minute casting decision?
22. Who stars with Jane Fonda in
Grace and Frankie?
FILM & TV
23. How are the shows Better Call Saul
and Breaking Bad connected?
24. Who plays the character of Maeve
Millay in Westworld?
25. How many seasons of Dancing with
the Stars have there been?
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Gangster Movies

1. Who plays the original Godfather?
2. On what day does British screen
villain Harold Shand face
his demise?
3. How many versions of Scarface
have been filmed?
4. Which film is this quote from: “All
my life, I wanted to be a gangster”?
5. Complete the name of the gangster
classic: Angels with Dirty…
6. According to the film title,
there are things to do in Denver
when you’re what?
7. Which gangster does Johnny Depp
play in Public Enemies?
15. Complete the name of this cult
classic: Reservoir…
16. The crime family in The Godfather
trilogy take their last name from
which Sicilian city?
17. Complete the name of this film
about low-level villains: Brighton…
18. Las Vegas is the setting for
which Martin Scorsese film
released in 1995?
19. In which city is the film The
Untouchables set?
20. James Cagney never says, “You
dirty rat!” in any of his films.
True or False?

8. Which film pairs Robert De Niro

and Al Pacino on screen for the
first time?

9. What kind of gangster is

Denzel Washington in Ridley
Scott’s 2007 film?

10. Donnie Brasco is based on the

FILM & TV

real-life story of an undercover

FBI agent. True or False?

11. “Made it, Ma. Top of the world!” is a

line from which 1940s classic?

12. Who plays Jack Carter in

Get Carter?

13. Who plays the lead roles in 1967’s

Bonnie and Clyde?

14. Who directed Once Upon a Time

in America?

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MI-5

1. Which government agency does
MI-5 follow?
2. What is the name given to the secure
office where the officers are based?
3. The season 7 cliffhanger involves
Harry Pearce being held prisoner
by whom?
15. At the start of season 10, Harry
receives a note from a former
MI6 agent. What is his name?
16. The identity of five assets is stored
in a laptop that is stolen at the start
of episode 2 of season 10. Which
former MI5 operative is found
with the laptop?

4. Where are the headquarters of MI5?
5. What is the code name given to
the Counter-Terrorism Department
of MI5?
6. Which character from MI-5
has not been a Technician and
Data Analyst?
7. In which season was Harry Pearce
told that the queen wishes to give
him a knighthood?
20. At the end of episode 2 season 10,
8. In season 8, which organization
attempts to provoke a nuclear
war between India and Pakistan?
17. What is the usual occupation
of John Grogan, the first spy
uncovered on the stolen laptop
in season 10?
18. What is the caller ID on Martha
Ford’s cell phone when she receives
a call from MI5?
19. In what hotel room does Sasha
Gavrick hide the cell phone
that he retains from his mother?
Tariq takes a minicab to Millbank to
alert Harry of a “remote intrusion”
on his home server. True or False?

9. What is the name of the spin-off

series set in 2013 following a
nuclear bomb in London?
FILM & TV

10. Harry Pearce is the only person to

have interacted with every single
one of the show’s main characters.
True or False?

11. What is Lucas North’s real name?

12. In season 9, what is Albany?

13. In Russia, who are the FSB?

14. Who takes on the role of Section

Chief at the start of season 10?

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Modern Movies
1. Julia Roberts won the Academy
Award, Golden Globe, and a
BAFTA for her role in which
2000 film?
2. In which Austin Powers film does
Beyoncé make her movie debut?
3. Which Rolling Stone appears in the
Pirates of the Caribbean films?
4. Director Tim Burton has cast which
actress in seven of his films?
5. Which Jane Austen classic was
adapted into a film that stars
Keira Knightley?
6. Who is Thomas A. Anderson better
known as?
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return
of the King won every one of the 11
Oscars it was nominated for in
2003. True or False?
8. The Shawshank Redemption is
based on work by which author?
9. Who became the first woman to
win a Best Director Oscar in 2010?
FILM & TV
10. What is the name of the character
played by Robert De Niro in Martin
Scorsese’s Taxi Driver?
11. Who plays Chewbacca in 1977’s
Star Wars?
12. How many Academy Awards did
Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-
Terrestrial win?
13. Who plays Deckard in Ridley
Scott’s Blade Runner?
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14. Reservoir Dogs was directed
by Quentin Tarantino in 1992.
True or False?
15. Who plays Mildred Hayes
in Three Billboards outside
Ebbing, Missouri?
16. Who directed the Lord of the
Rings trilogy?
17. Who directed Titanic, Avatar, and
The Terminator?
18. Walk the Line is a biopic based
on the life of which singer?
19. Cameron Diaz got her big break
by being cast as the lead female
in which film?
20. Which three films have Meg Ryan
and Tom Hanks starred in together?
21. For which film did Sandra Bullock
receive an Oscar?
22. Who directed the first foreign-
language film to win the Academy
Award for Best Picture, and what
is its title?
23. Which 2020 remake tells the story
of a doctor who can talk to animals,
and who is the star?
24. Which 2017 film directed by
Christopher Nolan features a mass
rescue by small civilian watercraft?
25. Birds of Prey starring Margot
Robbie features which DC
Comics character?
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Book to Movie Adaptations
1. What character does Kermit the
Frog play in the Muppet version
of Robert Louis Stevenson’s
Treasure Island?
2. Which infamous movie villain
was originally created by American
horror/thriller author Thomas Harris?
3. Which actors play vampires in an
adaptation of the book Interview
with the Vampire by Anne Rice?
4. Complete the inscription from
The Lord of the Rings: “One Ring
to rule them all; One Ring to find
them; One Ring to bring them all…”
5. What brand and model of car can be
seen flying across London and the
British countryside in the second
Harry Potter film?
6. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
became a hit Steven Spielberg
film in 1985. Which star got her
big break in the lead role?
7. In Rudyard Kipling’s and Disney’s
The Jungle Book, what is the name
of the python?
8. Sean Connery commands a
submarine in which 1990 film
based on a Tom Clancy book?
9. After five nominations, Kate
Winslet won her first Oscar in
2008 for her role in an adaptation
of which book by Bernhard Schlink?
10. Which Disney film adaptation
of a classic book features playing
cards, hares, cats, rabbits, dodos,
and door knobs?
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QUIZ 385
11. Part of the action in 1985’s A Room
with a View takes place in which
Italian city?
12. Breakfast at Tiffany’s has
transitioned from novella to film
to Broadway musical to famous
song; who wrote the original book?
13. Meryl Streep stars in the 2006 film
based on which novel about the
fashion world by Lauren Weisberger?
14. Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist has
proved popular with filmmakers.
Who plays Fagin in the David
Lean version?
15. Name the book by Ian McEwan
that was filmed in 2007 with Keira
Knightley and James McAvoy.
16. Who wrote the courtroom drama
on which the Susan Sarandon film
The Client is based?
17. What is the name of the book
that became the influential Steven
Spielberg film about the Holocaust?
18. C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of
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Narnia have now been made into
three successful movies, but how
many books are there in the series?
19. Who wrote the books that became
the successful James Bond spy
film franchise?
20. The Leopard with Burt Lancaster
is a 1963 film version of the
novel by whom?
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From Stage to Screen
1. Which military movie starring
Jack Nicholson was originally a
play by Aaron Sorkin?
2. The play Pygmalion by George
Bernard Shaw was adapted to
become an Oscar-winning film
musical. True or False?
3. The 1982 movie Annie came from
a musical of the same name. True
or False?
4. The film My Own Private Idaho
re-imagines two of Shakespeare’s
plays in a radically new setting
in the 1990s. Which two plays
are involved?
5. A stage play by C. G. Bond was
turned into a stage musical and then
a musical film starring Johnny Depp
and Helena Bonham Carter. What are
the titles of the play and the musical?
6. The successful 1928 play The
Front Page by Ben Hecht and
Charles Macarthur was adapted
for the cinema. What is the title
of the film?
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7. Which 1926 play by Maurine
Dallas Watkins set in prohibition-
era America became a stage musical
and then an Oscar-winning musical
movie in 2002?
8. Romeo and Juliet by William
Shakespeare was adapted and updated
for which blockbuster film musical?
9. Carousel is a 1956 movie adaptation
based on a Rodgers and Hammerstein
stage musical of the same name.
Which year did it hit the stage?
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10. Frederick Knott wrote the play
Dial M for Murder in 1952.
When was the film released?
11. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
won the 1963 Tony Award for Best
Play. True or False?
12. The film Forbidden Planet is
a modern take on which play
by Shakespeare?
13. Elizabeth Taylor stars in the
1958 film adaptation of Tennessee
Williams’s play Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof. True or False?
14. The 1954 play The Matchmaker
by Thornton Wilder was adapted
to become which successful
musical film?
15. Which 1975 musical film based
on the play of the same name
introduced actor Tim Curry?
16. Glengarry Glen Ross, a play by
David Mamet, was released as a
film in 1992. The story depicts
the lives of four real-estate agents.
True or False?
17. Who plays King Arthur in the
1967 film based on the stage
musical Camelot?
18. Cyndi Lauper was Eva Peron in the
film version of the musical Evita.
True or False?
19. Which Oscar-winning film is based
on the stage play I Am a Camera, set
in the early years of Nazi Germany?
20. Who is its star?
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Avengers Assemble, from Comic and Screen
1. The Avengers was created by
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and
first appeared in 1963. True
or False?
2. Captain America is one of
the original Avengers in the film
series. True or False?
3. In which film does Captain America
first appear as an avenger?
4. Who is the first supervillain
the Avengers face?
5. Loki once turned Thor into a girl.
True or False?
6. Who writes the Avengers Charter?
7. What is the name of Thor’s hammer?
8. What is the Hulk’s full name?
9. Odin once imprisoned Loki in a
tree. True or False?
10. What is the name of the project
that transforms Steve Rogers
from a 98-pound weakling into
Captain America?
11. Who plays Tony Stark in the
film series?
12. What is the name of the metal that
makes up Captain America’s shield?
13. Iduun’s apples help keep Thor
immortal. What are they called?
14. What is Hawkeye’s real name?
15. Baron Zemo founded which
supervillain team?
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QUIZ 387
16. Where is the Avengers
Mansion located?
17. Natasha Romanova, the Black
Widow, was originally a spy
from where?
18. Which member of the X-Men was
once a member of the Avengers?
19. Which additional superhero
makes an appearance in
Avengers: Infinity War?
20. What special powers does
Hawkeye have?
21. When describing the Avengers
to Loki, how does Tony Stark
describe Thor?
22. Where does Natasha
Romanoff find Bruce Banner
in The Avengers (2012)?
23. In Avengers: Infinity War, who
saves Dr. Strange from being
sucked out into space?
24. Which of the Avengers does
Loki plan to use to bring
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down S.H.I.E.L.D.?
25. What does S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for?
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 QUIZ 388 MEDIUM

Captain America

1. Captain America makes his first
appearance in what comic book?
2. What classification does
young Steve Rogers receive at
his physical before he becomes
Captain America?
14. Who is the Winter Soldier?
15. What is Captain America’s shield
made out of?
16. In Captain America: The First
Avenger, who is the Red Skull?

3. What does Steve tell the doctor
is his reason for enlisting?
4. What is the name of the doctor
in charge of “Project: Rebirth”?
5. The Project physician is the
only person who knows how
the enhancement process works.
True or False?
6. What turns Steve Rogers into
Captain America?
7. In which year is Steve
Rogers frozen?
17. In Captain America: Civil War,
which teenage superhero does Tony
Stark recruit to the team to oppose
and capture Captain America?
18. Which agent was in love with Steve
Rogers in the 1940s?
19. In Captain America: The Winter
Soldier, what are the giant flying
S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicles called?
20. Which role does Tommy Lee
Jones play in Captain America:
The First Avenger?

8. What symbol is on Captain

America’s shield?

9. Who is Captain America’s

best friend?
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10. In which year is Steve

Rogers unfrozen?

11. In the film Captain America:

Civil War, who does Captain
America fight?

12. How did Captain America feel about

the Superhuman Registration Act?

13. In Captain America: The

Winter Soldier, with which
S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is Steve
Rogers sent on a mission?

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Batman: The Dark Knight

1. At what age does Bruce Wayne
embark on his journey to learn
all the skills he will need to
become Batman?
2. What outing ends in disaster for
the Wayne family?
3. What is the full name of
Batman’s butler?
4. What villain does Harvey
Dent become?
15. What is Harley Quinn’s job when
she first meets the Joker?
16. Batman is a founding member of
the Justice League of America.
True or False?
17. Barbara Gordon, the first Batgirl,
went on to become whom?
18. Barbara Gordon is the biological
daughter of Commissioner Gordon.
True or False?

5. Who directed The Dark Knight?
6. Which villain appears in every
film in The Dark Knight trilogy?
7. Which villain once broke
Batman’s back?
19. Selina Kyle’s first catsuit as
Catwoman is which color?
20. What is the name of the
gangster who throws the acid
in Harvey Dent’s face?

8. Jason Todd is the third Robin.

True or False?

9. When Jason Todd returns from

the grave, under what name does
he fight crime?

10. By what other name is Jean-Paul

Valley known?
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11. Which of the following does

NOT exist: Batboy, Batman,
Batgirl, Batwoman?

12. Bane has brown eyes and brown

hair. True or False?

13. Jonathan Crane, aka Scarecrow,

suffers from chiropteraphobia.
This is the fear of what?

14. What is the Penguin’s real name?

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 QUIZ 390
The Oscars: An Encore
1. In which year was the first
Academy Awards ceremony?
2. Which three films have won
11 Oscars, the most by a
single film?
3. Which film won the Academy
Award for Best Picture in 1994?
4. Which three animated films
have been nominated for the
Best Picture Oscar, the only
three to have been nominated?
5. Who has won the highest number
of Oscars for acting?
6. Jean Dujardin was the first-ever
French actor to win a Best Actor
Oscar in 2011. True or False?
7. Two actors have posthumously won
Oscars for acting. One was Peter
Finch. Who was the other?
8. Walt Disney has won the highest
number of Oscars ever by an
individual. How many nominations
did he receive?
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9. How old was the youngest-ever
Oscar winner, Tatum O’Neal,
when she won Best Supporting
Actress for Paper Moon?
10. Which director has won the most
Academy Awards for directing?
11. The Godfather II is the first sequel
to have ever won an Oscar for
Best Picture. True or False?
12. Who was the first person to host
the Oscars?
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13. How many actors have won
two Best Actor in a Leading
Role Oscars?
14. Who won an Oscar for portraying
an Oscar winner in 2005?
15. It was cheaper to build the Titanic
than it was to make a film about
its sinking. True or False?
16. How many times did Gwyneth
Paltrow say “Thank you” in her
acceptance speech for the Best
Actress Oscar for Shakespeare
in Love?
17. Marlon Brando refused his Best
Actor Academy for which film?
18. Which is the only X-rated film to
have won Best Picture?
19. What was Roberto Benigni
thankful for in his acceptance
speech for his film Life
Is Beautiful?
20. The Academy Award for Best
Original Musical has not been
awarded since 1984 due to there
being an insufficient number of
eligible films. True or False?
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Art in TV, Music, and Film
1. Which famous artist appeared in
the BBC’s Doctor Who in 2010?
2. The murderer in Wes Craven’s
Scream horror movies wears a
Halloween mask inspired by
a painting by which artist?
3. What kind of dancer is featured in the
1998 movie Degas and the Dancer?
4. Which painting does Thomas
Crown steal in the movie The
Thomas Crown Affair?
5. The television drama Desperate
Romantics focuses on the lives and
loves of which type of artists?
6. In the 1997 movie Titanic, Rose has
a collection of art on board. Which
of these is part of her collection:
Water Lilies (Monet), The Kiss
(Klimt), Sunflowers (van Gogh)?
7. In 1968, which band paid tribute to
Lowry in their single “Pictures of
Matchstick Men”?
8. Which British movie starring Bob
Hoskins is about a petty criminal
who becomes entangled in the life
of a high-class call girl?
9. Who stars in the 1996 movie
Surviving Picasso?
10. Whose painting does Libby use
to track down her husband
Nicholas Parsons in the 1999
film Double Jeopardy?
11. Which artist is at the heart of
the book and film Girl with a
Pearl Earring?
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QUIZ 391
12. Which movie starring Charlton
Heston covers the story of
Michelangelo’s troubles while
painting the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel?
13. In Entrapment starring Sean
Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones,
which artist’s painting is stolen at
the beginning?
14. Who sang the song “Mona Lisa”
in the 1950s?
15. The 1952 movie Moulin Rouge
is a fictional account of which
French artist?
16. Factory Girl starring Sienna Miller
is about a socialite’s relationship
with a folk singer and whom?
17. The logo for surf equipment
company Quiksilver is
inspired by which painting?
18. Little Ashes starring Robert
Pattinson is a movie about—
among others—which artist?
19. Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last
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Supper plays a central role in
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.
True or False?
20. Who stars in the silver-screen
biopic Pollock?
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Film Buff
1. Who directed the 1927
classic Metropolis?
2. “It wasn’t the airplanes. It
was Beauty killed the Beast.”
Which iconic film does this
quote come from?
3. Which famous actor-director
plays Cardinal Wolsey in
A Man for All Seasons?
4. The 1941 film The Maltese Falcon
is based on the book of the same
name. Who wrote the book?
5. Who plays Ilsa in Casablanca
opposite Humphrey Bogart’s Rick?
6. How many Hollywood musicals
did Gene Kelly dance in between
1942 and 1957?
7. Which of these actors stars
in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo:
James Stewart, Gary Grant,
Humphrey Bogart?
8. What year did Disney’s Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs premiere?
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9. What year marked the release of the
first-ever 3-D film, Bwana Devil?
10. Which 1946 film stars Rita
Hayworth and is directed by
Charles Vidor?
11. Frankenstein, King Kong, and
Dracula were all originally screened
in which decade?
12. What is the name of James Dean’s
final movie before his premature
death in 1955?
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13. Norma Jeane Mortenson is the real
name of which Hollywood icon?
14. Which subgenre of film would
you most associate with director
Sergio Leone?
15. Who plays Mrs. Robinson in
The Graduate?
16. What character does Clint
Eastwood play in Sergio
Leone’s Dollars trilogy?
17. The 1950s science-fiction classic
The War of the Worlds stars
Gene Barry and which actress?
18. Who is Leo the Lion?
19. Horror-film and Western icon
John Carradine is the father of
David Carradine. True or False?
20. What is Marlon Brando’s
debut film?
21. The Shawshank Redemption is
based on a work by which author?
22. Star Trek, directed by J. J. Abrams
and premiered in 2009, marked
how many motion pictures for
the franchise?
23. What is the name of the character
played by Robert De Niro in Martin
Scorsese’s Taxi Driver?
24. Reservoir Dogs was directed by
Quentin Tarantino in 1992. True
or False?
25. Who plays Marge Gunderson
in Fargo?
 D I F F I C U LT QUIZ 393

BFI on Film

1. What is the name of the first 14. Which British director was
film Ken Loach directed, which responsible for Brief Encounter
premiered in 1967? in 1945?

2. Who directed the 1949 British
classic, The Third Man, which
went on to win the Best Film
award at Cannes?
3. Which British actor first portrayed
Darth Vader in Star Wars in 1977?
4. What is the subject matter of
Lindsay Anderson’s 1957 film
Every Day Except Christmas?
5. Richard Attenborough directed
Gandhi in 1989. True or False?
6. What year did Kes first appear
on the big screen?
7. Where in London was Charlie
Chaplin born?
8. Which of the following films is
NOT directed by Stephen Frears:
Four Weddings and a Funeral,
Mrs. Henderson Presents, Prick
Up Your Ears?
15. Mike Hodges, director of Get Carter
and Flash Gordon, was born in
1966. True or False?
16. How many of the 9 BAFTA
nominations did Four Weddings
and a Funeral win in the
1995 ceremony?
17. Anthony Minghella directed Truly,
Madly, Deeply in 1991 for which
major British television company?
18. What is the name of Sam Mendes’s
first feature film, which premiered
in 1999?
19. Alfred Hitchcock completed his last
film in 1976. What is the title?
20. What two films directed by Quentin
Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez in
2007 make up Grindhouse?
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9. What year did Alfred Hitchcock die?

10. What is the name of Guy Ritchie’s

first film?

11. What is the name of Kate

Winslet’s character in the 1998
film Hideous Kinky?

12. What year was Monty Python

first televised?

13. The 39 Steps, as directed by Alfred

Hitchcock, premiered when?

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 QUIZ 394 D I F F I C U LT
Bond Villains
1. In which film does Blofeld build
himself a new face?
2. Alec Trevelyan gives James and
Natalya “six minutes” to escape
on his train in GoldenEye. What’s
special about these six minutes?
3. “I gave orders that Bond should
be killed. Why is he still alive?”
Who says this?
4. What physical difference singles
out Le Chiffre, Bond’s nemesis
in Casino Royale?
5. SPECTRE stands for Special
Executive for Counter-Intelligence,
Terrorism, Revenge, and Evil.
True or False?
6. In which film does James Bond
first meet Blofeld?
7. What are Blofeld’s first and
middle name?
8. What is the name of the virus that
Blofeld’s “Angels of Death” will
unleash on the world in On Her
Majesty’s Secret Service?
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9. In which film is Dr. Kananga
the bad guy?
10. What physical difference does Bond
know about Francisco Scaramanga
when M first mentions him in The
Man with the Golden Gun?
11. James Bond and Major Anya
Amasova of the KGB come up
against which villain in The
Spy Who Loved Me?
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12. Max Zorin famously says, “James
Bond. You appear with the tedious
inevitability of an unloved season”
in A View to a Kill. True or False?
13. What is the name of the assassin
who breaks into the MI6 safe house
in The Living Daylights and kidnaps
General Georgi Koskov?
14. Which Bond villain says, “The
distance between insanity and genius
is measured only by success”?
15. In the film Tomorrow Never Dies,
the villain is Doctor Kaufman. What
is he considered a master in?
16. What happened to Renard
that resulted in him not
being able to feel pain?
17. What poisonous creature do
Wint & Kidd use to kill their
victim when they first appear
in Diamonds are Forever?
18. Who says, “Mr. Bond is indeed
a very rare breed. Soon to be
made extinct”?
19. In Die Another Day, the villain
Gustav Graves was formerly
known as whom?
20. Elektra King hates MI6 because
they advise her father not to pay
her ransom money. Who does she
target specifically?
 D I F F I C U LT
Iron Man in Words and Pictures
1. Which of the following does the
Iron Man suit NOT have: jet boots,
gauntlets, wings?
2. Iron Man makes his comic book
debut in Tales of Suspense #39.
What year was it?
3. The first Iron Man suit is gray,
and Tony Stark finally settles on
a suit of red and gold. What color
is the suit in-between?
4. What color are Tony Stark’s
eyes on film?
5. Tony Stark says, “Being a man
in a metal suit doesn’t solve any
problems… It just gives you a
whole lot of new ones to think
about.” True or False?
6. Which of the following has Stark
Industries NOT been known as
over the years: StarkCorp, Stark
Enterprises, Stark International?
7. What is Pepper Potts’s full name?
8. What is Rhodey’s name when he
puts on the Iron Man suit?
9. Who of the following is a long-
standing enemy of Iron Man:
Titanium Man, Bethany Cabe,
War Machine?
10. Wolverine once borrowed an
Iron Man suit from Tony Stark.
True or False?
11. What age does Tony Stark enroll
at MIT?
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QUIZ 395
12. In what circumstances does
Tony Stark decide to go public
with his dual identity?
13. What government act causes the
last rift between Iron Man and
Captain America?
14. Where is the Dragon Seed Saga set?
15. When the West Coast Avengers
disband, Iron Man sets up Force
Works. Who is also a member:
Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Storm?
16. Tony Stark once says, “Hiding?
Is that what it’s come to? Hiding
my feelings, my life behind this
iron face?” True or False?
17. Who of the following has Iron
Man NOT teamed up with: The
Thunderbolts, the Thundercats,
Ms. Marvel?
18. What is the super serum that gives
superhuman strength, melding man
and machine?
19. Which of the following heroes is
NOT a member of the Illuminati:
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The Human Torch, Black Bolt,
Mr. Fantastic?
20. Tony Stark designs a special suit
of armor for Spider-Man, the Iron
Spider costume. True or False?
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 QUIZ 396 D I F F I C U LT
Star Wars
1. At which convention was Star Wars
first revealed?
2. Who is responsible for creating
the beep-boops, blips, and buzzes
of Star Wars?
3. George Lucas witnessed the
blockbusting lineup for
the premiere of Star Wars
while eating lunch where?
4. The story of Mace Windu, a
revered Jedi-bendu of Ophuchi,
is told in… ?
5. Padme Amidala is Senator of… ?
6. In the original and prequel trilogies,
R2-D2 is mostly operated from the
inside by which actor?
7. Steven Spielberg thought
Return of the Jedi was the
greatest Star Wars film of
them all. True or False?
8. Which of the following action
figures were NOT offered with
Kenner’s February 1978 early
bird mail-in offer: R2-D2, Luke
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Skywalker, Darth Vader?
9. E.T. pines for his home world
when he recognized a Halloween
costume of which character?
10. The final episode of the 2004
Clone Wars micro-series
introduces which villain?
11. On January 31, 2005, Lucas
called “Action” for the last day
of Episode III shots where?
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12. Star Wars won the Best Picture
Academy Award in 1978.
True or False?
13. Howard the Duck, also by George
Lucas, although poorly received by
critics, managed to make back its
$37 million budget. True or False?
14. Which of the following
megapopular movie theaters did
not show Episode III: Grauman’s
Chinese Theater, the Ziegfeld,
Leicester Square (London)?
15. The 501st Legion is established
as a part of the Star Wars universe
in which novel?
16. Star Wars Celebration (1999)
was the first official Star Wars
convention. True or False?
17. The voice of a Neimoidian general
in The Clone Wars is provided
by which Star Trek actor?
18. In 1996, screen-accurate lightsaber-
hilt replicas were released by which
collectibles company?
19. The design of C-3P0 is partly
inspired by that of another
famous droid called what?
20. The Strategic Defense Initiative,
the controversial space-based
missile defense program of the
1980s, was nicknamed what?
 D I F F I C U LT QUIZ 397

The Simpsons

1. What is the name of Lionel Hutz’s
law firm?
2. What is the descriptive anagram
Lisa’s rival creates to describe
a famous actor in a game with
her father?
3. What class does Lenny teach
at the Adult Education Annex?
4. Sherry is older than Terry by
10 seconds. True or False?
5. In “Treehouse of Horror V,”
what dish is Üter cooked into?
6. What is the name on Bart’s
fake credit card?
7. How old is Hans Moleman?
8. Which of the following is
NOT a kind of Duff beer: Duff
Peanut Butter Lager, Duff with
Penicillin, Duff Amber Fire?
15. Which of these products is NOT
endorsed by Krusty the Klown:
Krusty’s Kosher Karaoke Machine,
Krusty-Brand Home Pregnancy
Test, Krusty-Brand Lo-Cal
TV Dinner?
16. What is the first film Scratchy
the cat appears in?
17. What is the age difference
between Bart and Lisa?
18. What is the title of the fourth film
in the McBain series?
19. What is the worst name
Moe has ever heard?
20. Which of the following is NOT
one of Dr. Nick Riviera’s degrees:
Club Med School, Downtown
Drive-Thru Doctors, Female
Body Inspector?

9. How many times has the creator Matt

Groening appeared in The Simpsons?

10. Who is Fat Tony’s son named after?

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11. Who is Señor Ding Dong?

12. In the Springfield Film Festival,

there were seven entries. What is
the name of Apu’s film?

13. How many puppies does Santa’s

Little Helper sire with She’s
the Fastest?

14. Who does Bart talk to after a

failed prank call made to Moe in
the episode “Flaming Moe”?

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 QUIZ 398 D I F F I C U LT
Bond Girls
1. What is the name of the girl who
first appears walking out of the
sea in a bikini in Dr. No?
2. What is significant about Jill
Masterson’s untimely death
in Goldfinger?
3. Who says of Bond, “When the time
is right, he will be killed”?
4. What is the name of the boss of
the Japanese Secret Service in
You Only Live Twice?
5. Bond and Teresa di Vicenzo first
meet in On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service when he does what?
6. What is Tiffany Case obsessed with?
7. In which film does Rosie Carver,
intrepid CIA agent, appear?
8. Major Anya Amasova, who appears
in The Spy Who Loved Me, wants to
kill Bond because he betrayed her
with another woman. True or False?
9. Naomi works for Karl Stromberg
in The Spy Who Loved Me. What
FILM & TV
is her job?
10. What is the signature weapon of
Melina Havelock, the heroine in
For Your Eyes Only?
11. Magda is the cool, enigmatic, and
sinuously athletic ringmaster of
Octopussy’s circus. True or False?
12. When Bond says, “Whoever she
was, I must have scared the living
daylights out of her,” who is he
talking about?
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13. What is Natalya Simonova’s
profession in GoldenEye?
14. Who says, “You know, this job
of yours”?
15. In which country do Bond and
Dr. Christmas Jones first meet?
16. In which film does Agent
Goodnight appear?
17. What is Jinx wearing when
she and Bond first meet in Die
Another Day?
18. Miranda Frost is an Olympic gold
medal winner in which sport?
19. From what agency does Vesper
Lynd, Bond’s love interest in
Casino Royale, come?
20. What is the name of the girl Bond
teams up with in Quantum of Solace?
21. In Dr. No, what is Sylvia Trench
playing when Bond finds her in
his apartment?
22. What secret weapon does Rosa Klebb
have in From Russia with Love?
23. Who plays Pussy Galore
in Goldfinger?
24. Who plays Teresa di Vicenzo in
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service?
25. In Diamonds Are Forever, what
color is Tiffany Chase’s mustang?
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The BFI on Hitchcock

1. What is Hitchcock’s first 15. Ingrid Bergman, while trying to

Hollywood release? get into character, told Hitchcock
she couldn’t grasp her character’s
2. What style of film is Hitchcock motivation. To which Hitchcock
most notable for? replied what?

3. Where was Hitchcock born 16. What is the name of Alfred

in the UK? Hitchcock’s first television series?

4. In which film does Hitchcock make 17. Hitchcock was raised as a Roman
his first cameo appearance? Catholic. True or False?

5. Grace Kelly stars in Rear Window 18. What causes the birds to be
with Cary Grant. True or False? aggressive in The Birds?

6. Which one of these actors does 19. During his cameo in Strangers on
NOT star in a Hitchcock film: a Train, what does Hitchcock board
Gloria Swanson, Tippi Hedren, the train with?
Joseph Cotten?
20. What was the date of Alfred
7. How many Laurel Awards did Hitchcock’s death?
Hitchcock win in his career?

8. In what year was Psycho released?

9. Who wrote the script for North

by Northwest?

10. Hitchcock was knighted in 1979.

True or False?
FILM & TV

11. How long did it take Hitchcock

to progress from Title Designer
to Film Director?

12. What is the name of

Hitchcock’s wife?

13. Which American composer is

most notable for his collaborations
with Hitchcock?

14. What is Hitchcock’s middle name?

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Indian Cinema
1. In which year did commercial
cinema begin in India?
2. How many National Film Awards
did Satyajit Ray, regarded as one of
the greatest auteurs of 20th-century
cinema, win?
3. The first Indian talkie movie
is what?
4. Known as “The Golden Age of
Indian cinema,” which era produced
some of the most critically acclaimed
Indian films of all time?
5. Which was the first Hindi movie to
receive the National Award?
6. Who is known as “The Father of
Indian Cinema”?
7. Which film was India’s entry at
the Oscars in 2003?
8. Kisan Kanya is India’s first color
film. True or False?
9. Who is the only Indian to have
won the Lifetime Achievement
Award at the Academy Awards?
FILM & TV
10. Naushad Ali brought Indian
classical music into the film
medium. True or False?
11. Which 2009 film is based on
the terrorist attacks of 9/11?
12. In which year were the Filmfare
Awards given for the first time?
13. What was the first Bollywood
film to be nominated for the Best
Foreign Film Award at the Oscars?
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14. In the Indian film world, Begum
Ayesha Sultana Khan is popularly
known as whom?
15. The lead female role in the popular
Hindi movie Mother India is
played by who?
16. In the overseas market, My Name
Is Khan is the top lifetime-grossing
Bollywood film. True or False?
17. Monsoon Wedding won no
awards at the 13th Valenciennes
International Film Festival in
France. True or False?
18. Sunny Deol’s real name is what?
19. Jawaharlal Nehru was a die-hard
fan of her and even wrote her a fan
letter. Who is she?
20. Raja Harishchandra is the first
full-length Indian motion picture.
True or False?
21. Tollywood films are in what
regional language?
22. Which Bollywood actor stars
in Life of Pi?
23. Which actress was awarded the
Padma Shri in 2016?
24. Masala films mix genres, such
as musicals, romance, and drama.
True or False?
25. In which film does Anil Kapoor
first appear without his moustache?
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Famous Locations in Film

1. Where was almost all of zombie 14. Where was romcom Notting
romp Shaun of the Dead shot? Hill filmed?

2. In which country was the Lord
of the Rings trilogy shot?
3. Kubrick horror flick The Shining
was almost entirely filmed where?
4. Which movie borrows unused
footage of the Glacier National Park,
in Montana, from The Shining?
5. What building is used as the
headquarters of the sinister OCP
Corporation in Robocop?
6. Over which city is Neo flying
at the end of futuristic fantasy
The Matrix?
7. The Tribeca Firehouse at 14 North
Moore Street, New York City, was
used for which film?
8. Lois Lane is left dangling from a
building on which street in New
York in the original 1978 Superman?
15. Where was the Palantine Rally
filmed in the 1970s classic
Taxi Driver?
16. Where was the main set constructed
for the most expensive movie ever
made at the time, Waterworld?
17. Where can Elliot’s house in
the 1982 movie sensation E.T. the
Extra-Terrestrial be found?
18. Antarctic 1982 horror movie The
Thing was actually shot in British
Columbia. True or False?
19. Where was the quirky comedy
Napoleon Dynamite shot?
20. In which part of London does a
coffee-shop explosion take place
in the 2006 film Children of Men?

9. Where is the fictional town square

in the police spoof Hot Fuzz?
FILM & TV

10. Where does the opening shoplifting

chase take place in Trainspotting?

11. In the Bruce Willis thriller Die Hard,

who does the building belong to?

12. Where can the planet of Tatooine

from Star Wars be found on Earth?

13. The Sound of Music was shot in

the studios of 20th Century Fox
and where else?

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Period Dramas
1. Which period drama starring
Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth
hit British TV screens in 1995?
2. Which UK television drama
features the ongoing sagas at
165 Eaton Place?
3. Which period drama set in
the American West starred
Jane Seymour?
4. Between what years did the Little
House on the Prairie TV show run?
5. Middlemarch is a 1994 television
adaptation from the novel of the
same name by… ?
6. Stanley Kubrick’s period film
featuring the exploits of a fictional
18th-century Irish adventurer is… ?
7. Who plays the detective tracking
Jack the Ripper in From Hell (2001)?
8. Where was the 2007 TV period
drama The Tudors filmed?
9. In what decade is American Western
television series Deadwood set?
FILM & TV
10. Who directed the epic
movie Gladiator?
11. Marie Antoinette is an early
period movie starring Norma
Shearer. When was it released?
12. Which 2002 miniseries was one
of the last filmed with actor
Richard Harris before he died?
13. The 2004 epic film Troy was
based on Homer’s… ?
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14. The first British television adaptation
of Robin Hood was produced in
1953. True or False?
15. In which TV series does Alan
Rickman play a clergyman
named Slope?
16. Boardwalk Empire is an
American TV period drama
set during which era?
17. Which of these is a 2008 movie set
in the prehistoric era: 10,000 BC,
Caveman, The Ice Age?
18. Which 2010 period television drama
is set on a post-Edwardian-era
Yorkshire country estate?
19. Which 1995 Mel Gibson period flick
picked up five Academy Awards?
20. Jidaigeki is a type of Japanese
television drama set during the
time of the samurai. True or False?
21. Who plays Thomas Cromwell
in Wolf Hall?
22. Which long-running period
drama series is based on the
novels of Winston Graham?
23. In which British city is Peaky
Blinders set?
24. Which TV series based on a
Gaskell book is set in a
Cheshire town in 1842?
25. Sanditon is based on an
unfinished novel by… ?
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Australian Films
1. The popular quote “That’s not a
knife…” comes from which 1980s
Aussie hit?
2. Which 1975 period drama features
panpipes and missing schoolgirls?
3. A Cry in the Dark is the true-life
story of mother Lindy Chamberlain,
whose baby was taken by a… ?
4. Toni Collette won a Golden Globe
Award nomination for her 1994
role in… ?
5. A violent skinhead biopic starring
Russell Crowe is the 1992 film… ?
6. Nicole Kidman first broke into
mainstream movies in which
1989 thriller?
7. Which drama about a musician
on the verge of a nervous
breakdown won Geoffrey Rush
a Best Actor Oscar?
20. The Story of the Kelly Gang was
8. Which 2000 film features the prison
antics of Mark Brandon Read?
9. Which film that centers around the
animal action on Hoggett’s farm
was shot in New South Wales?
10. Winning two Oscars, which 2001
jukebox musical is set in France
and stars Ewan McGregor?
11. Which movie follows the
1,500-mile (2,400-km) trek
of two Aboriginal girls?
12. The Anzac battlefield movie
starring Mel Gibson is what?
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QUIZ 403
13. Samson and Delilah is about two
Aboriginal children who steal a car
to drive to Perth. True or False?
14. Which 1979 road thriller
introduced Mel Gibson to
an international audience?
15. The 2006 animated comedy
about Antarctic hi-jinks is… ?
16. What 2005 horror flick is about
every backpacker’s nightmare?
17. Which 1992 romcom centers around
making it to the Pan-Pacific Grand
Prix Championship?
18. Which affectionate suburban satire
had Darryl Kerrigan say, “This is
going straight to the pool room”?
19. Men dressed as women singing
their way through the Outback
can be seen in the musical… ?
the first feature-length Australian
film. It was released in 1906.
True or False?
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Superhero Villains

1. Which supervillain waddles into 14. Which Fantastic Four villain likes
view in Batman Returns? to devour planets?

2. Xander Drax is the villain charged 15. Doomsday is the only villain
with battling “The Ghost Who in the universe to have killed
Walks,” better known as whom? Superman. True or False?

3. Dr. Hector Hammond is 16. Once, he loved this superhero like

a supervillain usually associated
with which superhero?
4. Dr. Doom is the terrorizing
supervillain from which film?
5. Selena is the archenemy of
which superhero?
6. Which bald supervillain is obsessed
with destroying Superman?
7. The Red Skull is the villain
trying to kill which popular
US superhero?
a son, but later Professor Trevor
“Broom” Bruttenholm sets out
to destroy him. Who is he?
17. Which supervillain is played by
Jim Carrey in Batman Forever?
18. Which villain has a contract for
Johnny Blaze’s soul in Ghost Rider?
19. Juggernaut makes an appearance
in which X-Men movie?
20. Who battles with Superman
in space during Superman IV?

8. Bullseye and Kingpin are on the

list of which film superhero?

9. Venom is the shapeshifting nemesis

of Spider-Man. True or False?

10. The Abomination is the supreme

FILM & TV

supervillain set on crushing whom?

11. He’s handy if you drop a fork,

but not so great if you’re having
dinner with Charles Xavier.
Who is this supervillain?

12. In which movie does bad girl

Poison Ivy appear?

13. The Green Goblin spends most

of his time trying to kill off
which well-known superhero?

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Pixar
1. What year did Toy Story, Pixar’s
first feature-length film, come out?
2. What is the name of the lamp that
is the official mascot of Pixar?
3. Pixar was originally the computer
graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd.
True or False?
4. What does Sid’s sister Hannah
call Buzz when they’re having
tea together in Toy Story?
5. Who steals Woody’s hat and
says: “I’m Woody! Howdy,
howdy, howdy!”?
6. What game does the main
character in Geri’s Game play
in the park?
7. In which Pixar film would you
find Cornelius?
8. What year was the film
Cars released?
9. Andy’s dog is called Bounder.
True or False?
10. How many small birds are sitting
on the wire in For the Birds before
the big bird lands?
11. How many years does it take for
Sully to be promoted from trainee
Scarer to Scarer?
12. What does Boo call Sully?
13. In Finding Nemo, Dory is a regal
tang, also known as a hippo tang
or blue surgeonfish. True or False?
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QUIZ 405
14. What is Team Dinoco’s color
in Cars?
15. In Finding Nemo, what is Nemo’s
dad named?
16. In The Incredibles, evil mastermind
Syndrome’s real name is what?
17. In One Man Band, which of the
following instruments does Bass
NOT play: tuba, violin, drums?
18. In Cars, what make is Sally,
Lightning McQueen’s love interest?
19. What is the name of Linguini’s
restaurant in Ratatouille?
20. WALL-E is set in the future,
in which year?
21. What does Russell name his giant
bird friend in Up?
22. In Toy Story 3, what is Lotso’s
full name?
23. In Cars, what is the name of
Ramone’s company?
FILM & TV
24. In Brave, Merida’s father is named
Fergus. What does “Fergus” mean?
25. Of what type of wood is Fergus’s
leg made?
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More of everything mixed up

in this wide-ranging collection of
quizzes covering all subjects from
fashion, cars, and mad emperors to
space, rock pools, and how to survive
in the wild. Take a chance and
see what you get…
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Musical Instruments
1. Which keyboard instrument can
be carried and squeezed?
2. The didgeridoo comes from
which country?
3. Queen Elizabeth I of England was
highly musical and played which
keyboard instrument?
4. Fender Stratocaster is a make
of what?
5. What is a theremin?
6. Unlike many other wind
instruments, the bassoon has
a double reed rather than a
single reed. True or False?
7. The pipa is a four-stringed, pear-
shaped instrument that looks like
a lute. Where does it come from?
8. The saxophone was first used for
military music. True or False?
9. Miles Davis is best known
for playing which instrument?
10. The theme for the film
The Third Man is played
on which instrument?
11. Mutes are added to a trumpet’s
bell to do what?
12. A triangle can always be heard
above an orchestra. True or False?
13. Which of these is a type of cymbal:
hi-hat, snare, tom-tom?
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QUIZ 406
14. Which of these is NOT a sound effect
that you can make with a saxophone:
trilling, growling, squawking?
15. What sort of instrument is
a balalaika?
16. Which instrument to the
ancient Greeks symbolized
universal harmony?
17. The ukelele was invented
in 19th-century Hawaii.
True or False?
18. Piccolos belong in the brass section
of the orchestra. True or False?
19. The sousaphone is a type of what?
20. How many notes are there in an
octave on a keyboard (white and
black keys)?
21. What part of a horn is the bell?
22. How many pedals does a harp have?
23. A lute needs a reed to be played.
True or False?
24. In Peter and the Wolf, what
instrument is used to represent
the cat?
25. Which instrument is used to
represent the duck in Peter
and the Wolf ?
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Dinosaur Attack

1. What does the word 15. When do experts think the first
“dinosaur” mean? dinosaurs appeared?

2. The giant, plant-eating sauropods 16. Velociraptors are thought to have

had incredibly long what? been fully feathered. True or False?

3. What is the name of the dinosaur 17. Velociraptors were no bigger than
famous for the plates along its back? a wolf. True or False?

4. Dinosaurs laid eggs. True or False? 18. What does “velociraptor” mean?

5. What is Archaeopteryx’s claim 19. Most dinosaurs were herbivores,

to fame? carnivores, or omnivores?

6. Pterosaurs were not dinosaurs.
How were they different?
7. Ichthyosaurs lived where?
8. What is a paleontologist?
9. Oviraptorids were thought to be
egg stealers because the first fossil
was found near a group of eggs.
True or False?
10. Some experts think the skull of
Giganotosaurus was 6 ft (1.8 m)
long. True or False?
11. How do scientists think a
stegosaur’s back plates helped
it to keep comfortable?
12. All dinosaurs were huge.
True or False?
20. Tyrannosaurus rex was the largest
of all the carnivorous dinosaurs.
True or False?
21. What do experts think might
have brought about the end of
the dinosaurs?
22. What was the first dinosaur to
be discovered?
23. What dinosaur was the size
of a chicken?
24. Who was the famous female fossil
hunter who died in 1847?
25. I have four paddle-like flippers, a
tiny head, sharp teeth, and a pointed
tail. Which dinosaur am I?

13. No complete Supersaurus neck is

known, but experts think it was
more than 52 ft (16 m) long (seven
times longer than a giraffe’s).
True or False?
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14. What color was

Tyrannosaurus rex?

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All about You

1. Humans have just one stomach. How
many stomachs does a cow have?
2. How many bones are there in
an adult skull?
3. Where would you find the smallest
bone in the body?
15. How many teeth does an adult have?
16. Approximately how much food will
you eat in your lifetime?
17. There are enough blood vessels
in the human body to wrap around
Earth’s equator twice. True or False?

4. To what food group do 18. How many years of their life does
potatoes belong? an average person spend asleep?

5. What is the largest organ 19. Where does the aorta travel
in the body? from, and to where?

6. The brain is soft and squishy. 20. What is the outside of a cell called?
What keeps it safe from damage?

7. How many dead skin cells fall

off the human body every day?

8. What is the hardest-working

muscle in the body?

9. What does trichromacy refer to?

10. The dangling structure at the back

of the mouth is called the what?

11. What gas do we need from the air

for respiration?

12. The elbow is an example of which

sort of joint?

13. Which of these animals is the

slowest runner: brown bear,
human, wolf?

14. Which system in the body is part

of the immune system and is
responsible for carrying white
blood cells to the bones?
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Planet Earth

1. What is Earth’s center called?
2. Which of the following has been
declassified as a planet: Neptune,
Pluto, Mars?
3. How many days does it take for
Earth to orbit the sun?
4. How many days does it take for
the moon to orbit Earth once?
5. Earth rotates on its axis. How
long does one rotation take?
6. The North Pole always faces
the sun. True or False?
7. When it is winter in the Southern
Hemisphere, what season is it in
the Northern Hemisphere?
8. On June 21, the South Pole receives
24 hours of continuous sunlight.
True or False?
9. What happens when two tectonic
plates move apart?
10. Which of these is NOT caused by
the movement of Earth’s plates:
volcanoes, sedimentation,
earthquakes?
11. Earth’s surface is split into
plates that are always moving.
True or False?
14. The three main types of rock
are igneous, sedimentary, and
metamorphic. What type of
rock is granite?
15. Longitude lines run from pole
to pole. True or False?
16. What is the softest mineral
on Earth?
17. A scientist who studies rocks
is called a what?
18. Precious stones form by
crystallization of minerals deep
underground. Which of these
is NOT a precious stone: coral,
ruby, topaz?
19. What percentage of Earth’s surface
is covered by oceans?
20. Which is the largest ocean on Earth?
21. Pure topaz looks clear or muddy?
22. Which US state produces the
most coal?
23. Which gemstone’s name translates
as “dark red”?
24. Amethyst is a type of what?
25. What is the most common rock
on Earth?

12. What is the hardest mineral

on Earth?

13. Limestone is a sedimentary

rock that dissolves in acid.
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True or False?

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Infinity and Beyond

1. How many planets are there in 16. Who first proposed that the Earth
the solar system? and planets revolve around the sun?

2. Which planet is named after the 17. Sputnik was the first man-made
Roman god of the seas? object to orbit Earth. True or False?

3. About how old is the universe?
4. Which toy figure travels
“to infinity, and beyond!”?
5. Which is the third planet from
the sun?
20. The Big Dipper is part
6. How many signs of the zodiac
are there?
18. The constellation name “Aquarius”
comes from the Latin word
meaning what?
19. When did Galileo first use
the telescope?
of which constellation?

7. What happened on April 12, 1961?

8. Crux, the smallest of the 88 modern

constellations, is commonly known
by what name?

9. A shooting star is also known as

an asteroid. True or False?

10. Which was the first shuttle orbiter

into space?

11. Which is the best-known galaxy

orbiting the Milky Way?

12. Who was the first woman

in space?

13. What is the communication

cap worn by astronauts called?

14. What type of galaxy is the

Milky Way?

15. How long does it take sunlight

to reach Earth?
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A Hop through History

1. Stonehenge was built about 5,000 13. Where was gunpowder invented
years ago. True or False? in the 9th century?

2. What are hieroglyphs? 14. On board warships, “powder

3. After death, rich Egyptians were
mummified and buried with things
they might need in the afterlife. This
even included food. True or False?
4. In the mummification process,
what did the embalmers do with
the brain?
5. Which ancient culture invented
the stone wheel, a vital aid to
transportation?
6. The ancient Romans had a form
of central heating. True or False?
7. The calendar we use today was
introduced by Julius Caesar.
True or False?
8. The first castles to be built in
Europe were made of what?
20. What were trebuchets
9. When was the first telephone
call made?
monkeys” were used to keep the
cannons supplied with gunpowder.
What were they?
15. Before 1600, which of these would
have been familiar to the people
of Europe: chocolate, sweetcorn,
tomatoes, none of these?
16. Which of these is the odd one out, as
it was invented after 1800: postage
stamp, printing press, telescope?
17. What was a penny farthing?
18. What disease arrived in Europe
in 1347?
19. Before toilet paper was invented,
people used all sorts of materials
instead. When was the first
packaged toilet paper produced?
and mangonels?

10. Toilets in castles were in small

rooms, at one end of which
was a hole with a wooden seat.
What happened to the waste?

11. What was the name of the

telescope that was launched
in 1990 and has provided many
photographs of space?

12. In the Middle Ages, people

ate food off chunks of bread rather
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Ice Worlds

1. Penguins live at which pole, 14. The Antarctic Ross ice shelf is about
North or South? the size of which European country?

2. Who led the first successful
expedition to reach the
South Pole?
3. What kind of ox survives in
Arctic conditions?
4. The lowest temperature recorded
in Antarctica is -128.2°F (-89°C).
True or False?
5. How far can polar bears swim
from the shore?
6. The Arctic is shrouded in darkness
from October to when?
7. What name is given to
open, treeless land that is
permanently frozen?
15. An average fully grown, male
walrus will weigh up to what?
16. In what year did people first set
foot on Antarctica?
17. The Lambert Glacier is in the
Arctic. True or False?
18. What kind of animal is a south
polar skua?
19. Polar bears can prey on whales.
True or False?
20. How does a king penguin move
its egg around?

8. The fur of the Arctic fox in

winter is what color?

9. What name is given to the

people who live in Arctic
Canada and Greenland?

10. Which whale that swims in

Arctic waters has a long tusk?

11. What is the ferocious seal

that preys on penguins
in Antarctica?

12. How long will it take for snow

falling at the South Pole to reach
the coast (as an iceberg)?

13. There are no insects in Antarctica.

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 QUIZ 413
Gothic Literature
1. Horace Walpole is credited with
starting the Gothic genre with
which novel?
2. What is Doctor Frankenstein’s first
name in the original book?
3. Which Matthew Gregory Lewis
title features debauchery and
black magic?
4. German Gothic literature is described
by the term schauerroman. What
does it mean?
5. In which country did Ann
Radcliffe set The Mysteries of
Udolpho although she had never
been there herself?
6. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is
influenced by a Sheridan
Le Fanu book called what?
7. In which year did Mary Shelley
publish Frankenstein?
8. Which Jane Austen novel was
written as a parody of the
Gothic novel?
9. On whom is the character
Lord Ruthven based in the
novel Glenarvon?
10. What is the name of Percy
Shelley’s first Gothic work,
published in 1810?
11. What is the name of John William
Polidori’s famous Gothic work?
12. Who reinvented the Gothic genre
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Fall of the House of Usher?
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13. In which year was Emily Brontë’s
Wuthering Heights published?
14. Complete the title of this Thomas
de Quincey novel: Confessions of…
15. What grants three wishes in
the terrifying 1902 story by
W. W. Jacobs?
16. Which Edgar Allan Poe novel
describes the horrors of the
Spanish Inquisition?
17. What did Lady Caroline Lamb
say that Lord Byron was?
18. The Wanderer is a novel by which
celebrated English diarist?
19. What is the name of Stella Gibbon’s
character driven mad in the
woodshed in the comedy Cold
Comfort Farm: Grandad Grear,
Aunt Ada Doom, Mother Mutter?
20. Author Horace Walpole built
his house in a medieval Gothic
style. What was the house called?
21. In which century did Gothic novels
become popular?
22. Gothic texts rarely have heroic
female characters. True or False?
23. Who is the villain in the novel
The Castle of Otranto?
24. Rearrange these words to make the
title of a well-known Gothic novel:
English Old Baron The.
25. Who wrote The Woman in Black?
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Underground Animals

1. Moles have poor eyesight, and 17. Chipmunks are good at climbing
some are blind. True or False? and digging. True or False?

2. Badgers live in groups called what? 18. A meerkat is a type of mongoose.

True or False?
3. How many legs does an ant have?
19. Earthworms are bad for the soil.
4. “Armadillo” translates as what? True or False?

5. Gerbils live in burrows in which
natural habitat?
6. Rabbits were introduced to
Britain by whom?
7. How long can cicada nymphs
live underground?
8. A mole eats its own weight in
food every day. True or False?
9. Shaving brushes were
traditionally made from the
fur of which animal?
10. The giant clam burrows under the
sea floor and can weigh up to what?
20. Moles can grow up to what length?
21. Prairie dogs are native to
which part of the world?
22. How do warthogs prepare their
underground burrows?
23. What animal is believed to live
deeper underground than any other?
24. Mole crickets have broad
shovel-like front legs to help
them burrow. True or False?
25. How do pocket gophers carry food
from one burrow to another?

11. Army ant colonies can have up

to how many individual ants?

12. The colonies where rabbits live

are called what?

13. Some tarantulas live underground.

True or False?

14. Worms can live up to how long?

15. Prairie dogs live in underground

burrows with special sleeping
quarters, nurseries, and toilet
areas. True or False?
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Rock Pools

1. The water in seaside rock 17. Hermit crabs take over empty
pools is salty. True or False? seashells. True or False?

2. How many “teeth” do sea 18. What is kelp?

urchins have?
19. How do limpets move?
3. Bladder wrack seaweed has bubbles
so it can do what in the water? 20. What is a one-shelled
mollusk called?
4. What do starfish have on the
ends of their rays?

5. A rock goby is a type of what?

6. How do anemones react when

exposed to the air?

7. Cooked mussels are still too

poisonous to eat. True or False?

8. Which of these is NOT a bivalve:

whelk, oyster, mussel?

9. What do limpets feed on?

10. Barnacles attach themselves to the

bottoms of ships. True or False?

11. What do barnacles do

when underwater?

12. How much water does a limpet suck

up to keep it from drying out?

13. Sea anemones are related to

what other creature?

14. Sea lemons are usually yellow but can

sometimes be pink. True or False?

15. What covers the body

of a blenny fish?
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16. Some seaweeds are used to

make toothpaste. True or False?

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Things with Wheels
1. How many wheels were attached
to Jay Ohrberg’s limousine, the
longest car in the world?
2. Which alarm clock on wheels beeps
and rolls away so its owner has to
get out of bed to switch it off?
3. How is the 19th-century high-wheel,
ordinary bicycle better known?
4. Which is the smallest car
ever made?
5. The ancient Egyptians built their
pyramids without the use of the
wheel. True or False?
6. A depiction of a wheeled vehicle
was discovered on the Bronocice
pot dating from around 3500 bce.
In which modern-day European
country was it found?
7. Wheels have been found on toys
from the Olmec culture that date
to around 4500 bce. True or False?
8. Which country’s principal road
race is known “the Giro”?
9. With what safety feature is the
4MC bike provided?
10. Who invented the bicycle driven by
pedals in 1839?
11. The biggest production car ever
made was the 22-ft (6.7-m) Bugatti
Royale Type 41. How many of the
car were made?
12. What was the name of the first
“tank” steam locomotive in
the world?
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13. Alliott Verdon Roe’s triplane
was the first airplane built in
the UK. How far did it fly on
its maiden flight?
14. The YikeBike is a child’s
motorcross bike. True or False?
15. In which year was the boneshaker
bicycle first manufactured in
the UK?
16. What is the Antonov An-225
Mriya’s claim to fame?
17. Which was the most powerful
gear on the Model-T Ford?
18. What can the Gibbs Aquada car
do in six seconds?
19. What year was the first Tour
de France held?
20. Stuntman Ray Baumann built
the biggest motorbike in the
world, at 10 ft (3 m) high and
how many feet long?
21. The first Rolls Royce car was
the Rolls Royce 10. How many
were built?
22. The smallest plane ever built is
the Mosquito III. True or False?
23. What was a common name for
bikes in 1869?
24. What kind of bike is used for
off-road cycling?
25. What was the 1817 bike without
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Famous Best-Sellers
1. With more than 200 million copies
sold, which is Charles Dickens’s
best-selling book?
2. J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit has
sold more copies than the Lord of
the Rings trilogy. True or False?
3. Which is crime writer Agatha
Christie’s all-time best-seller, with
more than 100 million copies sold?
4. There were seven books in
C. S. Lewis’s Narnia series.
Which one was the biggest seller?
5. Despite causing great controversy,
this Vladimir Nabokov novel went
on to sell more than 50 million
copies. What is its title?
6. Which 1961 novel describes
Yossarian’s wranglings with
an illogical war machine?
7. H. Rider Haggard’s 1887 adventure
novel has sold more than 83 million
copies in 44 different languages.
What is it called?
8. Sometimes taught at school,
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
is on the list of 30 all-time
best-sellers. Who wrote it?
9. Brazilian author Paulo Coelho
is one of the most widely read
authors in the world. Which is
his best-selling book?
10. Recounting Miss Shirley’s
adventures on Prince Edward
Island, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s
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best-selling book is what?
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11. Published posthumously in 2005,
this Stieg Larsson book is called
The Girl with the… what?
12. Which children’s best-selling
novelty book ends with a butterfly?
13. Gone with the Wind the novel sold
millions before it became a film.
Who wrote it?
14. Which was George Orwell’s
best-selling novel?
15. Which Sue Townsend book has
sold more than 30 million copies
and was the best-selling British
book of the 1980s?
16. Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 Wind in
the Willows has sold more than 25
million copies. True or False?
17. Which Richard Adams best-seller
focuses on life among rabbits?
18. No list of best-selling authors
would be complete without the
one who has dedicated himself
to horror and sold more than
350 million books. Who is he?
19. Dream of the Red Chamber is the
highest-selling book in Chinese
literature. Who wrote it?
20. The Little Prince has sold
more than 200 million copies.
Who wrote it?
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African Wildlife
1. This African animal has no
sweat glands, so it needs water
or mud to cool down in. What is
it: hippopotamus, zebra, lion?
2. Which little African herbivore
is related, by name only, to a
huge African herbivore?
3. Complete the name of this
African flier: the Angolan hairy…
4. How many species of African
rhinoceros still exist?
5. Dian Fossey spent her life
researching which animal
in Rwanda?
6. Which is the closest living
relative to the hippo?
7. Which African predator lives
along the banks of the Nile River?
8. The African honey badger also
goes by what other name?
9. This African animal’s special
coat pattern is thought to be
designed to confuse predators:
zebra, cheetah, giraffe?
10. Also called the ant bear, this
African animal can commonly
be found at the beginning of
the dictionary. What is it?
11. To what species of animal does
the bongo belong?
12. Which African predators live in
groups with up to 100 members?
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QUIZ 418
13. When the male species of the
African vervet monkey matures,
it moves to a neighboring group.
True or False?
14. What is another common name
for the African wildebeest?
15. The African dung beetle is
now almost completely extinct.
True or False?
16. The African animal known as
a dik-dik is a what?
17. A giraffe’s tongue is 18 in (46 cm)
long. True or False?
18. Which small African carnivore likes
sleeping inside termite mounds?
19. How many muscles are there
in an elephant’s trunk: 20,000,
30,000, 40,000?
20. How many toes are on the foot of
the African wild dog?
21. Which bird hitches a ride on the
backs of hippos and other animals,
eating ticks and other insects?
22. After the cobra, what is the second-
longest venomous snake in Africa?
23. Hippos can snap a crocodile in half.
True or False?
24. Which is Africa’s largest eagle?
25. What is a caracal?
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Feeling Bendy?

1. Which three religions is yoga 14. Which country did Joseph Pilates
associated with? come from?

2. Finish the name of this yoga 15. Yoga places great importance
pose, downward facing… on breathing. True or False?

3. Yoga mainly helps keep which 16. What did Joseph Pilates call the
part of the body flexible: legs, muscle group comprising the abs,
arms, spine? buttocks, lower back, and hips?

4. Who invented Pilates? 17. Which of the following is NOT

5. Which part of the body does
Pilates aim to work: core,
shoulders, legs?
6. Pilates trains every part of the
body evenly. True or False?
7. Which of the following is NOT
used in yoga: weights, block, mat?
a Pilates mat exercise: roll down,
teaser, one hundreds?
18. Yoga increases muscle tone.
True or False?
19. Patanjali is known as “the father
of yoga.” True or False?
20. Doga is yoga with which animals?

8. You should not practice Pilates

while pregnant. True or False?

9. Which of the following is the

basic principle of yoga: beneficial
exercise, positive thinking,
relaxation, all of these?

10. What is the vital energy in

yoga known as?

11. When is the best time to

practice yoga?

12. In yoga, what is the child’s pose

used for?

13. What is the foundation of yoga:

aligning your body, moving in a
controlled manner, stretching?
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Fashion

1. Which designer is credited 15. What is the name of designer

with bringing punk fashion Stella McCartney’s famous dad?
into the mainstream?
16. Katharine Hamnett called her
2. Vivienne Westwood’s designs were 1986 show “Power Dressing.”
featured in which 2008 film? True or False?

3. Which decade was known as 17. Which film star famously

the “anti-fashion decade”? wore Givenchy?

4. What was a symbol of “power 18. During which decade were leg
dressing” for women in the 1980s? warmers thought to be a good idea?

5. Which Italian city is often called 19. What sort of woman wore her
the “Fashion Capital of the World”? hair in a “bob” in the 1920s?

6. Who created the New Look? 20. During what decade was the
“poodle skirt” worn?
7. What fashion house did
Marc Jacobs work for?

8. In 1957, Mary Quant opened her

Chelsea shop. What was it called?

9. Of which fashion house was

Karl Lagerfeld director from
1983 to 2019?

10. Of which fashion house was Yves

Saint Laurent head designer at 21?

11. The word “tuxedo” first appeared

in 1889. True or False?

12. Roy Halston Frowick was a

famous designer of disco fashion.
By what name was he known?

13. Actress Brooke Shields helped

Calvin Klein sell his tight-fitting
jeans to the world. True or False?

14. Who is credited with inventing

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“shocking pink”?

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Australian Literature
1. Which Australian author
won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1973?
2. Which Australian novelist wrote
Schindler’s Ark, the book that
formed the basis for the film
Schindler’s List?
3. What did Australian Henry
Lawson do after becoming
deaf, an alcoholic, homeless,
and suicidal?
4. What honor did Lawson receive
in 1922 after his death?
5. Which Australian author has
won the Booker Prize twice?
6. Which Australian wrote The
Thorn Birds, which later became
a popular television miniseries?
7. Set in Sydney, The Harp
in the South is by which
Australian author?
8. What pen name did Australian
author Nevil Shute Norway
use to protect his identity as
an aeronautical engineer?
9. His novels, often featuring the
Catholic Church, have been
published in 27 languages and
sold more than 60 million
copies worldwide. Who is
this Australian author?
10. Who is the author of The Female
Eunuch and a leading voice for
the feminist movement?
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11. Which Australian author is better
known for his Dame Edna Everage
television work?
12. For the Term of His Natural Life is
a famous 19th-century Australian
novel written by whom?
13. Australian author Thea Astley
won the Miles Franklin Award
in 1962 for which novel?
14. The son of Irish immigrants, which
author has been dubbed the “father
of the Australian novel”?
15. What Roger McDonald novel
is about the Gallipoli campaign?
16. Australian author David Unaipon
is famous for being what?
17. After what was Australian author
Miles Franklin finally able to
publish My Brilliant Career in 1901?
18. Thomas Alexander Browne’s
Robbery Under Arms is based on
the life of Australian bushranger
and killer Ned Kelly. True or False?
19. Who wrote the haunting Picnic
at Hanging Rock?
20. What is the surname of the
Australian author nicknamed
“Banjo” who appears on the
country’s $10 banknote?
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Religions of the World

1. How is Siddhartha Gautama 16. With which faith is the

commonly known? Talmud associated?

2. Who is the prophet of Islam? 17. The rejection of religion is

called what?
3. What year did he die?
18. Unitarian Universalism is
4. Which religion are Brahma, Vishnu, mostly found in North
and Shiva associated with? America. True or False?

5. Which religion has the 19. Maui is a god associated with

most followers? which Pacific people?

6. Approximately how many 20. Shinto is associated with

people follow it? which country?

7. Which Chinese teacher, editor, 21. In which country was

politician, and philosopher was voodoo founded?
born in 551 bce?
22. What Christian holiday
8. The Rastafari movement began follows Lent?
in which country?
23. A sacred text of Zoroastrianism
9. During which decade was is: the Rig-Veda, the Qur’an,
it founded? the Avesta?

10. What is a “menorah”? 24. Epiphany is the last day of

Christmas. True or False?
11. Where in India does the majority
of the Sikh population live? 25. Shaivism is a sect of
which religion?
12. The Harmandir Sahib, or “Golden
Temple,” is a sacred shrine for
Sikhs. True or False?

13. Jainism advocates non-violence

toward all living things. True
or False?

14. Jainism was founded in

which country?

15. Zoroastrianism is a religion

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most associated with Nepal.

True or False?

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Great Buildings

1. In which decade was the Sydney 16. Whose statue would you find
Opera House completed? outside the Palace of Versailles?

2. Where is St. Peter’s Basilica?
3. In which city would you find
the Jin Mao Tower?
4. Which of the founding fathers lived
in the private house Monticello?
5. Which saint is the great cathedral
in Moscow named after?
6. What was the Clock Tower
at the Houses of Parliament
renamed in 2012?
7. The Neuschwanstein Castle is
found in Austria. True or False?
8. Who designed St. Paul’s Cathedral?
9. Where would you find
the Parthenon?
10. Who designed the great Sagrada
Familia in Barcelona?
17. The Colosseum in Rome can seat
50,000 people. True or False?
18. What is the name of the largest
château in the Loire Valley, France?
19. For which religion was
the Borobudur Temple in
Indonesia built?
20. In which country would you find
many stave churches, like the great
Borgund Stave Church?
21. Where is the Temple of Heaven?
22. Which famous royal building was
bought by George III in 1761?
23. Where can you see the
Petronas Towers?
24. Where is the State Hermitage
Museum, the second-largest
art museum in the world?

11. Who did Emperor Shah Jahan have 25. Which building in Paris has all
the Taj Mahal built in honor of? its pipe work on the outside as
part of the decoration?
12. In which great building does
the British monarchy stay when
visiting Scotland?

13. The Chrysler Building is the

tallest building in New York
City. True or False?

14. Blenheim Palace was built in

which UK county?
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15. In which city is the skyscraper

known as the Shard?

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Political Dynasties

1. When was the House of 14. What year did the dynasty come
Habsburg founded? to an end?

2. The Habsburg name came from a 15. Which English house ruled between
Swiss castle known in German as 1485 and 1603?
the “Hawk’s Castle.” True or False?
16. The end of whose reign in 1603
3. Which former US president are marked a new royal dynasty uniting
former presidents George W. Bush England and Scotland?
and George H. W. Bush related to?
17. James I was the first king of the
4. Members of the Bush family House of Stuart to reign in England.
include: two senators, a Supreme True or False?
Court justice, two governors?
18. Charles I was the last Stuart
5. Which family has dominated monarch of Britain. True or False?
Indian politics since its
independence in 1947? 19. Between which years did Fidel
Castro hold power in Cuba as
6. Of which dynasty was prime minister and president?
Harun al-Rashid a ruler?
20. Who succeeded him?
7. What positions of power did the
Kaczynski twins hold in the
Polish government?

8. What year did President Lech

Kaczynski die in a plane crash?

9. What name is associated with

the great dynasty of Mongolia?

10. Which emperor from the dynasty

once tried to invade Japan?

11. Ruling between 1046 and 256 bce,

what was the longest-running
dynasty in China?

12. Iron was first introduced to

China during the Zhou period.
True or False?
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13. Which dynasty did Cleopatra

of Egypt belong to?

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World Traditions

1. In which city does the 13. Which meat do Americans

“Running of the Bulls” take
place every July?
2. A woman’s nosia is the traditional
folk costume in which country?
3. In which of these countries
might you have ogi, a fermented
porridge, for breakfast: Sweden,
Australia, Nigeria?
4. In Japan, it is considered correct
etiquette to accept business cards
with both hands. True or False?
5. Which Hindu festival is known
as the “festival of lights”?
6. In which of these countries might
you have an early afternoon siesta:
Spain, England, Germany?
7. In which of these countries
is giving a clock as a gift
considered unlucky: China,
Italy, Kenya?
8. Which US city is known for
its “Mardi Gras” celebrations?
20. What is the traditional Indian
9. What is the Jewish New
Year called?
traditionally eat at Thanksgiving?
14. In which of these countries
is Saint Lucy’s Day observed,
with a procession headed by
a girl wearing a crown of
candles or lights: Sweden,
Ukraine, Bulgaria?
15. Which of these countries celebrates
the Day of the Dead: Finland,
India, Mexico?
16. What color robe do monks
traditionally wear in Thailand?
17. What is the most popular
professional sport in Japan?
18. In which of these countries are
pigs considered a sign of good
luck: Germany, Argentina, France?
19. In which of these countries
are wedding cakes sometimes
topped with a small sapling
to symbolize new growth:
Norway, Bermuda, Iceland?
greeting gesture of two hands
together known as?

10. Cremation of the dead is illegal

in Singapore. True or False?

11. In which country does the

Holi festival take place?

12. In which of these countries do

relatives burn special paper money
(often called “Hell money”) as
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offerings to the dead: North

Korea, Cuba, China?

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The Night Sky

1. How many constellations are there?
2. How many stars can you see with
the naked eye?
3. The closest star to Earth after
the sun is what?
4. How far is Alpha Centauri from Earth?
5. How many stars can you see
in the Southern Cross?
16. Castor and Pollux are two bright
stars from which constellation?
17. What is a binary system
in astronomy?
18. The brightest star in Virgo is
called what?
19. Galaxies consist of different
colored stars. What does the
color of the star show?

6. The Southern Cross can only 20. What is the line of three stars
be seen from the Southern that make up part of the
Hemisphere. True or False? Orion constellation called?

7. Approximately how many stars
are in the Milky Way?
8. What is an exploding star called?
9. Which distant dwarf planet
was discovered in 1781 by
William Herschel?
21. What kind of star would have
a mass of approximately 20
solar masses?
22. How do stars produce energy?
23. What happens to a main sequence
star at the end of its life?

10. The Big Dipper is also known by 24. What color are the hottest stars?
the same name as a farm implement.
What is it? 25. Most stars form in nebulae.
What is a “nebula”?
11. Corona Borealis is more commonly
known as what?

12. What is the English name for the

constellation Ursa Major?

13. Hyades and Pleiades are two clusters

that lie in which constellation?

14. How many constellations did

Ptolemy define?

15. The constellation named after the

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flying horse in Greek mythology

is called what?

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Can You Believe It?
1. Anacondas live in which rain forest?
2. The green anaconda is the heaviest
snake. True or False?
3. The planets closer to the sun are
composed of heat-resistant, dense
material. True or False?
4. Polar bears are thought to
have lived on Earth for how
many years?
5. The Temminck’s courser is a
bird that lays its eggs on which
kind of ground?
6. The North Pole is a landmass.
True or False?
7. Humans journeying through frozen
Siberia can travel by train from
Moscow to which city?
8. The Sahara is not the world’s
biggest desert. True or False?
9. Jericho, the world’s oldest
continuously inhabited
city, lies next to which
extreme environment?
10. The Ruppell’s vulture can fly up
to what height above sea level?
11. Which creature has been responsible
for half of all human deaths (apart
from during warfare) since the
Stone Age?
12. Camels can close their nostrils.
True or False?
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13. The Sonoran Desert toad survives
by living in what?
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14. A form of microbe can survive the
conditions in the hot springs of
Yellowstone Park. True or False?
15. Foraminifera can live in the sea at
up to what depth under water?
16. Planetesimals are pieces of rock
pulled together by gravitational
attraction. True or False?
17. A spider released on the surface
of the moon in 1969 survived for
eight hours. True or False?
18. The roots of some plants in
Death Valley are about how
many times the height of the
average human being?
19. Cockroaches have been shown to
survive huge doses of radiation.
True or False?
20. What is the name given to huge
herds of ruminants that populate
the Arctic region?
21. Camels have leathery patches on
their knees to stop them from
getting burned when they kneel.
True or False?
22. What color is a polar bear’s skin?
23. What caused the solar nebula to
contract and spin faster?
24. What collective term is given to the
moon’s “seas”?
25. How does the sun produce energy?
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Women in Science
1. Marie Curie won the 1903 Nobel
Prize for Physics and the 1911
Nobel Prize for what?
2. To which scientific discipline
did Caroline Herschel devote
her life?
3. Which female scientist helped
unravel the structure of DNA?
4. Chair of the Institute of
Experimental Physics, Laura Bassi
was also the world’s first what?
5. Which British woman was a pioneer
in the field of paleontology?
6. What is primatologist Jane Goodall
best known for studying?
7. What discovery did Danish
seismologist Inge Lehmann make
about Earth’s core?
8. Which female was the first scientist
to discover the first fossilized skull
of a proconsul, an extinct ape related
to humans?
20. Which female scientist pioneered
9. In which scientific discipline did
Maria Goeppert-Mayer win the
1963 Nobel Prize?
10. She was the 1983 Nobel Laureate
in Physiology or Medicine.
But in what country was Barbara
McClintock born?
11. Gertrude B. Elion won a Nobel
Prize for Astrophysics in 1968.
True or False?
12. Who was the first female scientist
to win a Nobel Prize?
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13. In what year did Rita Levi-
Montalcini win the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine for
discovering nerve-growth factors?
14. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
won a 1995 Nobel Prize for her
studies in embryonic development.
True or False?
15. Which female scientist won a Nobel
Prize for helping identify the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as
the cause of AIDS?
16. What animal is zoologist Dian
Fossey best known for studying?
17. Which British woman won the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964?
18. What was astrophysicist Jocelyn
Bell Burnell the first to discover?
19. The potential of what did scientist
Lise Meitner help the world
understand: nuclear fission,
carbon dating, ammonia?
smallpox inoculation in England?
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Italy

1. What is the name of the island
near Venice where glass is
famously made?
2. The Grand Canal in Venice is
27 miles (44 km) long. True or False?
3. Which is the oldest bridge
in Florence?
4. What is the name of the typical
Italian Christmas cake, studded
with dried and candied fruits?
5. On which Italian island would
you find Mount Etna?
6. The balcony of which famous
Shakespearean character is found
in Verona?
15. In which Italian city is the 1969
version of The Italian Job set?
16. How many islands together form
the city of Venice?
17. The Vatican City is the world’s
smallest nation. True or False?
18. Which Roman emperor designed
the Pantheon?
19. Which island is the “boot” of
Italy kicking?
20. Which volcano destroyed the
city of Pompeii?
21. Which strait separates the south
of Italy and Sicily?

7. In which Tuscan city does the 22. How is the ancient Roman
biannual Palio take place? poet Publius Maro known?

8. Which Italian pasta is made from
potato, flour, and egg in the shape
of small dumplings?
9. Which river flows through
Florence and Pisa?
10. The Roman Colosseum was first
known as the Anfiteatro Flavio.
True or False?
23. Cagliari is the largest city in
which region of Italy?
24. Which stretch of Italian coastline
is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
25. What is the name of the Italian
system of roads?

11. To which Italian island was

Napoleon Bonaparte exiled?

12. Which emperor commissioned the

building of the Colosseum?

13. In which city is La Scala?

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14. In which month does the Venetian

Carnevale take place?

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I’m a Survivor
1. The flare used to signal distress
is: orange, blue, green?
2. Which of these is NOT a kind
of knot: Siberian hitch, arbor
knot, fish hitch ?
3. Which two species of bear are
most likely to attack humans?
4. What is the name of the largest
hot desert in the world?
5. The hearts of women, children,
and the elderly beat faster than
those of young adult males.
True or False?
6. Which of the following is a
symptom of dehydration: tingling
limbs, blurred vision, delirium?
7. What is a Finnish marshmallow?
8. Which of the following is a
good source of protein: seeds,
rice, root vegetables?
9. What does the Beaufort
scale measure?
10. Which animal can carry the
heaviest load?
11. Which of the following is NOT
a type of fire: tepee, snake hole,
short log?
12. Vomiting, poor circulation,
clammy skin, muscle cramps,
rapid dehydration, and increased
heart rate are symptoms of
cholera. True or False?
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13. Which of these is NOT a form
of man-made shelter: one-pole
poncho, cavern, forest A-frame?
14. What is a “hank”?
15. It is possible to get hypothermia
in the desert. True or False?
16. In most cases, how long can the
brain survive without oxygen before
it suffers irreparable damage?
17. Which chemical can be used
to purify water?
18. You have a better chance of
surviving an emergency at the
top of a mountain than at the
bottom. True or False?
19. What is a bow drill used for?
20. Tetanus is caused by what?
21. There are no poisonous
seaweeds. True or False?
22. What is the first stage of
frostbite called?
23. What is the head covering that
Bedouins wear to protect them
from the sun?
24. How long can an average healthy
adult survive without food?
25. Animal droppings can be used
to make a fire in the desert. True
or False?
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Around the World in 20 Questions

1. Where is the world’s largest mosque?
2. What is the world’s oldest
inhabited city?
3. In which countries are the
Mosi-oa-Tunya falls?
4. What were the falls named during
the 19th century?
5. Elvis Presley never set foot in the
UK. True or False?
17. On which river was the Great
Eastern super steamship launched
in 1859?
18. What is the name of Richard
Branson’s Caribbean island?
19. “Machu Picchu” means what?
20. Fill in the blank: The United
Nation’s Education, Scientific
and _____________ Organization.

6. Which country has a wind called

the “Mistral”?

7. The Sahel region lies close to

which desert?

8. The White Nile is the primary

source of the Nile. True or False?

9. Which state is Las Vegas in?

10. What was Sri Lanka formerly

known as?

11. Which tourist site has the greatest

visitor numbers?

12. Who designed the Sydney

Opera House?

13. Which two capitals lie on the

Plata River?

14. What is the Taj Mahal?

15. Who wrote Around the World in

80 Days?

16. Bath was originally founded

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or False?

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Turbulent Terrors

1. Krakatoa is to the east of what? 15. Which volcano destroyed Pompeii?

2. Which country was hit by a 16. A meteorite strike of 1908

massive tsunami in 2011? was centered on which
Siberian location?
3. What caused the tsunami?
17. What natural disaster hit eastern
4. Tornado wind speeds can England in 1953, also affecting
reach 805 mph (500 kmph). Holland and Belgium?
True or False?
18. Which of these disasters killed the
5. What uncommon event (for the most people: 1970 Bhola cyclone,
UK) killed eight people in Lewes, 2010 Haiti earthquake, 1976
East Sussex, in 1836? Tangshan earthquake?

6. The Deccan Traps are volcanic
features in which country?
7. When was the San Francisco
quake that measured 8.25 on
the Richter scale?
19. What killed an estimated 2,200
people across India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, and Nepal in 2004?
20. Which month of the year sees the
most tornadoes in the United States?

8. Which volcano erupted in the

state of Washington in 1980?

9. How many people were estimated to

have been killed in the 2004 Indian
Ocean tsunami?

10. What natural calamity killed

an estimated 2.5 million Chinese
in 1931?

11. According to the National Hurricane

Center, where did the deadliest
hurricane in US history kill 8,000
people in 1900?

12. What is the literal meaning of the

word “tsunami”?

13. Which European city was destroyed

by an earthquake in 1755?
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Chocolate Tasting Club on Chocolate

1. Chocolat was a 2000 film
starring Juliette Binoche and
which actor?
2. Chocolate can increase “good”
cholesterol and decrease “bad”
cholesterol due to its high levels
of what?
3. Which of the following types
of bean is the most delicate and
sought-after cocoa bean in the
world: Arabica, Forastero, Criollo?
13. What year did the first chocolate
shop open in London?
14. To qualify as dark chocolate,
it needs to contain at least 60%
of what?
15. What year did the first Hotel
Chocolat shop open?
16. At what temperature is the cacao
bean roasted in the chocolate-
making process?

4. Chocolate contains tryptophan, 17. Cocoa is a plant native to Hawaii.

a chemical the brain turns into
serotonin, also known as the
“happiness hormone.” True
or False?
5. In the chocolate-making process,
what are “nibs”?
6. Which continent produces the
most factory-made chocolate?
7. Where in the world is the Hotel
Chocolat resort?
True or False?
18. In 1870, Daniel Peter developed the
process to produce milk chocolate.
What nationality was he?
19. White chocolate does not contain
cocoa solids. True or False?
20. Chocolate Easter eggs as gifts can
be traced back to the 19th century
in which two countries?

8. Which country consumes the most

chocolate per person per year?

9. The cocoa pod grows from the

what on a tree?

10. How many seeds are there in

a cocoa pod?

11. Theobroma cacao is the scientific

name for the cocoa tree. When
translated into Greek, it means what?

12. What are the factory workers

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Factory called?

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Christmas Time
1. How many reindeer are said
to pull Santa’s sleigh (not
including Rudolph)?
2. Which popular Christmas carol
was written by an Austrian priest
as a result of a broken organ?
3. Before turkey, the traditional English
Christmas dinner was which bird?
4. Who gives all the presents in
“The Twelve Days of Christmas”?
5. In Sweden, St. Lucy’s Day is
celebrated with candles on
which day in December?
6. In what year was the first
Christmas card sent?
7. In the Czech Republic, St. Nicholas
is called Svaty Mikalas and is
believed to climb down to Earth
from heaven on a what?
8. The tradition of having a Christmas
tree comes from where?
9. Holly berries are poisonous.
True or False?
10. If you find a spider’s web in
your house on Christmas Day
in Ukraine, what is it said to
bring you?
11. Who banned Christmas in
England in 1647?
12. The Magi, also known as the
Three Wise Men, were named
Melchior, Balthasar, and what?
13. What is a “tannenbaum”?
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14. In Victorian times, mince pies
were made with what?
15. The letter “x” in Xmas is an
abbreviation for Christ in
which language?
16. Which country has sent a Christmas
tree to London every year since
1947 as a thank you for Britain’s
help during World War II?
17. On Twelfth Night, the Wassail Bowl
was filled with what?
18. In the Netherlands, St. Nicholas
is known as Sinterklaas. Which
country is he said to sail from on
his feast day, December 5?
19. The tradition of kissing under the
mistletoe is thought to come from
Frigga, the Norse goddess of what?
20. Which famous poet wrote the words
that are now used for the carol “In
the Bleak Midwinter”?
21. Who is commonly believed to
have written the famous poem
“T’was the Night before
Christmas”?
22. There is a town called Santa Claus
in the United States. True or False?
23. What novelty did Tom Smith
begin selling in 1847 at Christmas
in London?
24. What do Mexican children do with
a piñata?
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with Christmas?
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Really BIG Science

1. From tip to tip, how big is NGC 14. Which “big” theory is used
6872, the biggest galaxy ever to explain the formation of
detected by astronomers? the universe?

2. “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicov­ 15. How much larger than Jupiter is

olcanoconiosis” is one of science’s the superplanet TRES4 estimated
biggest words. To what does it refer? to be?

3. At 1,300 tons (1,162 tonnes), 16. The cosmic web is widely

the Bagger 288 is the biggest
mining machine in the world.
True or False?
4. The Armillaria ostoyae fungus is
thought to be the biggest organism
on Earth. How many soccer fields
would the mushroom cover?
considered to be the biggest
thing in the galaxy. True or False?
17. What is the heaviest plane
ever built?
18. The biggest planet in our solar
system is what?

5. What is the MS Marco Polo’s claim 19. Seawise Giant was the first name
to fame? for what is the world’s longest what?

6. What is the biggest celestial body
in our galaxy?
7. Where can the biggest thermometer
in the world be found?
20. The big science term “Palmitoylole­
oylphosphatidylethanolamine”
refers to a type of lipid. How is
it usually abbreviated?

8. The Large Hadron Collider is the

biggest scientific machine built
by man. True or False?

9. In 2018, the world’s most powerful

computer was what?

10. What is the Liebherr T 282B?

11. After nanoscience, which is the

likeliest “next big thing”: mesoscale,
multiscale, hyperscale science?

12. What is VY Canis Majoris best

known for being?
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13. What is the Overburden Conveyor

Bridge F60?

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Guess the Shakespeare Quote
1. Where does Henry V say, “Once
more unto the breach, dear friends,
once more”?
2. What will turn “the multitudinous
seas incarnadine, making the green
one red”?
3. What happens after the Earl of
Cornwall says, “Out, vile jelly!”
4. What “provokes the desire, but
it takes away the performance”?
5. “It is as broad as it hath breadth:
it is just so high as it is, and moves
with its own organs.” What beast
is this?
6. Who is a “bolting-hutch of
beastliness, swollen parcel
of dropsies, huge bombard of
sack, stuffed cloak-bag of guts”?
7. “The eye of man hath not heard,
the ear of man hath not seen, nor
his heart to report what my dream
was…” What is this?
8. “I have lost the immortal part of
myself, and what remains is bestial.”
What has Cassio misplaced?
9. “How beauteous mankind is! O
brave new world, that has such
people in’t!” Who gets quite excited
at meeting new people?
10. “Exit pursued by a bear” is a stage
direction from which play?
11. “Alas, poor Yorick” is from
which play?
12. What is the last line of Hamlet?
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13. Iago was a man “more sinned
against than sinning.” True or False?
14. “Nor more willingly leaves winter;
such summer-birds are…” what,
according to Timon?
15. “The first thing we do, let’s kill all
the lawyers.” Which play does this
come from?
16. “Hippolyta, I woo’d thee with my
sword, And won thy love, doing
thee injuries…” Who had an odd
approach to romance?
17. Which character in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream says, “Lord, what
fools these mortals be!”?
18. “Friendship is a constant in all
other things, save in the office
and affairs of love?” Claudio
says this in which play?
19. Who appears “as doth the blushing
discontented Sun from out the fiery
portal of the east”?
20. “And as she runs the bushes in
the way kiss her face, some twine
about her thigh to make her stay.”
Who is this?
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Vital Statistics

1. In which ocean trench is Challenger 14. Approximately how far above

Deep, the deepest point on Earth, at
35,797 ft (10,911 m) below sea level?
2. Where is Earth’s lowest point
on land, at 1,320 ft (402 m)
below sea level?
Earth’s surface is commonly
thought of as being the start
of space?
15. What is the world’s longest
river, at 4,132 miles (6,650 km)?

3. The tallest tree in the world is 16. What is the closest galaxy
379 ft (115.6 m) tall. What kind to Earth, about 2.3 million
of tree is it? light years away?

4. What was the world’s tallest 17. What is the world’s longest
building (as of August 2019), mountain range, at 4,500 miles
at 2,717 ft (828 m) high? (7,200 km) long?

5. Roughly how far is it from 18. Roughly how far is it to the center
Earth to the moon? of our Milky Way galaxy?

6. What is the world’s largest lake?
7. What is the nearest star to the
sun, at about 4.2 light years away?
8. What is the average distance
from Earth’s center to its surface?
19. What is the closest that Venus,
the nearest planet to us, ever
gets to Earth?
20. Roughly what is Earth’s
circumference, the distance
all the way around the equator?

9. What is the highest mountain

on Earth, with a peak 29,029 ft
(8,848 m) above sea level?

10. Roughly what is the average

distance between Earth and the sun?

11. Earth’s iron core is roughly

the same size as which of these
celestial bodies: the moon,
Mercury, Pluto?

12. At 2½ miles (3.9 km) deep,

TauTona is the world’s
deepest mine. Where is it?
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13. What is the deepest lake

on Earth?

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Color Challenge

1. Jackie Brown is a 1997 film 15. What color is Luke Skywalker’s

by which director? lightsaber in Return of the Jedi?

2. Back to Black is an album by 16. A red dwarf is a type of what?

which British artist?
3. Who wrote The Hunt for
Red October?
4. Which football team has won the
most NFL league championships?
5. Where would you find the
Côte d’Azur?
6. Who was known as the
“Black Prince”?
7. Which of the following is an
influential human anatomy textbook:
Brown’s Anatomy, Black’s Anatomy,
Grey’s Anatomy?
8. Polar bear fur has no color as
it is transparent. True or False?
9. Who wrote the song “Red
Red Wine”?
10. Who sang the song “You’re the
First, the Last, My Everything”?
11. Who plays James Bond in
the film Goldfinger?
17. What is the name of the longest
river in South Africa?
18. How many points is the blue ball
worth in snooker?
19. What is the name of the sea that
borders the east coast of Bulgaria?
20. The Red Baron famously fought
in which war?
21. Jack and Meg White from the
rock band the White Stripes are
brother and sister. True or False?
22. Carcharodon carcharias
is the Latin name for which
large creature?
23. Which organization did Henry
Dunant found?
24. In which century did the
Black Death ravage Europe?
25. Which vibrant red pigment
comes from cinnabar?

12. Where are the headquarters

of the environmental
organization Greenpeace?

13. In motor racing, what does the

yellow flag indicate?

14. In the novel The Wizard of Oz,

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Dorothy’s shoes are red. True

or False?

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Antarctica
1. Which of these countries does NOT
administer an Antarctic territory:
New Zealand, Australia, Germany?
2. Why do penguins have dark backs
and white fronts?
3. Who led the first successful overland
crossing of Antarctica in 1958?
4. The Worst Journey in the World was
written about a trip to Antarctica.
What was the point of the journey?
5. What is the lowest temperature ever
recorded at Vostok in Antarctica?
6. What is the official currency
of Antarctica?
7. Which of these royals doesn’t
have an Antarctic “land” named
after them: Queen Maud, King
Edward VII, Queen Elizabeth II?
8. What is the name of the mountain
range that runs across the continent?
9. What environmental problem was
first identified by scientists working
in Antarctica?
10. The southernmost active volcano
in the world is in Antarctica. What
is it called?
11. One of the sailors on Ernest
Shackleton’s expedition in 1914
smuggled his pet “Mrs. Chippy”
aboard. What kind of animal
was she?
12. Scientists working on Antarctic
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bases sometimes use large yellow
barrels to store which liquid?
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13. Clothing handed out to people
working in Antarctica is labeled
“ECW.” What do these initials
stand for?
14. In what year was the Antarctic
Treaty signed, which prevents
further claims on it as a territory?
15. Roald Amundsen was the first
person to reach the South Pole in
1911. What was his nationality?
16. Finnesko were clothing worn
by early explorers. Made entirely
from fur, they were worn on
which part of the body?
17. What name is given to a crack
opening in the sea ice, which ships
often follow to save the effort of
breaking the ice?
18. What name is given to
mountains that are covered
with ice, but whose summits
stick out above them?
19. Sledding in Antarctica is made
difficult by the presence of
sastrugi. What are they?
20. Which of these explorers never
visited Antarctica: Henry Morton
Stanley, Ernest Shackleton,
Tom Crean?
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Cars
1. What was voted “European Car
of the Year” in 1980?
2. What was the nickname of the
Austin-Healey Sprite in the US?
3. How many miles per gallon
did the 1938 Mercedes-Benz
W154 achieve?
4. What is the literal meaning
of the name “Volkswagen”?
5. What 1950s vehicle was marketed as
“the family car that wins races”?
6. Due to car tax regulations,
what was the top speed of
the Suzuki Cappuccino?
7. The spokes of the Spyker C8
Aileron are made from ex-propeller
blades. True or False?
8. In which country was the
Volvo 340 manufactured?
9. What did Jaguar originally
manufacture under the
name “Swallow”?
10. In which part of the UK was the
DeLorean DMC-12 manufactured?
11. What was the nickname of the
Chevrolet small-block V8 engine?
12. Whose company developed
the Tesla?
13. What is the oldest US sports
car still in production?
14. In what year was the current Mazda
“M” logo introduced?
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15. Which UK-manufactured sports
car has an exposed steel frame?
16. How long does it take the Eliica
electric car to go from 0–60 mph?
17. The Reliant Robin could be
driven on a motorcycle license.
True or False?
18. From what source did the Peugeot
bbl derive its power?
19. For how many years had Bentley
been absent from Le Mans when
it returned in 2001?
20. In which year did the Italian
government save Alfa Romeo
from bankruptcy?
21. What is the top speed of the
1948 Alfa Romeo 158 Alfetta?
22. How long does it take the
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
to go from 0–60 mph?
23. What is the top speed of the
Hennessey Venom GT?
24. How long does it take the
street-legal race car the Ariel
Atom to go from 0–60 mph?
25. What was the maximum speed
of the Model T Ford?
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Unusual Languages
1. Which Native American
language was used by the Allies
to confuse enemy code breakers
in World War II?
2. Where are the 31 Northern
Athabaskan languages
mostly spoken?
3. Which language was artificially
constructed rather than taught at
birth and is spoken across Europe,
East Asia, and South America?
4. Up to how many people speak
this language?
5. Approximately how many
languages did author J. R. R.
Tolkien create for his Middle
Earth characters?
6. Which tonal language uses
“click” sounds made with the
tongue, teeth, and mouth?
7. How many people speak Votic,
a language found in the Kingisepp
district of Russia?
8. Which Sami language is spoken
not written, making it only
possible to learn by living in
northern Sweden?
9. Only ten people remaining can
speak the Aboriginal Kayardild
language of northwest Queensland,
Australia. True or False?
10. What language would you be
speaking if you said: “Hab
SoSlI’ Quch!”
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12. What is Crimean Gothic an
example of?
13. What is an inventor of
languages called?
14. Which language was once
spoken by Vikings?
15. Which language similar to
Old Norse is spoken by around
200,000 people today?
16. An “idioglossia” is a private
language developed and spoken
by only a few people, often
including twins. True or False?
17. What language is spoken by around
140,000 inhabitants of the Yunnan
province in southern China?
18. What percentage of the world’s
7,000 languages could be extinct
by 2050?
19. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy, what device is placed in a
wearer’s ear to enable any language
to be translated?
20. What is a language spoken
in northern Holland that has
a low German dialect but is
considered closer to English
than any other language?
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Greek Mythology

1. Who or what guarded the gates 16. What did Prometheus steal from
of the Underworld? Zeus and give to mankind?

2. Who was punished by being forced
to eternally push a boulder up a hill,
only to have it roll back down?
3. Which of these Greek figures
was NOT a child of Zeus: Hera,
Aphrodite, Heracles?
20. Which of these pairs were twins:
4. The winged horse, Pegasus,
belonged to the goddess Aphrodite.
True or False?
17. What was Dionysus the god of?
18. Who held the world on
his shoulders?
19. Which goddess did Hades kidnap?
Apollo and Artemis, Athena
and Ares, Ares and Artemis,
Apollo and Athena?

5. Who was the first human woman 21. Who was the Greek goddess
created by the gods? of the rainbow?

6. Who was the Greek goddess 22. How many gods lived on
of wisdom? Mount Olympus?

7. How many labors did Hercules have 23. Who designed the labyrinth
to perform? of King Minos?

8. What was the Titanomachy? 24. Helen of Troy was married

to whom?
9. What was said to happen if you
stared into the eyes of Medusa? 25. The giant Argos had how
many eyes?
10. Where did Odysseus come from?

11. Which Greek hero killed

the Minotaur?

12. Why was Achilles

almost invulnerable?

13. Who was the father of Zeus?

14. Poseidon was the brother of Hades.

True or False?

15. What is the name of the popular

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the Greek god Ares?

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Cartography
1. The oldest world maps date to
approximately the 9th century bce.
The people of which ancient
civilization produced them?
2. When do the oldest Chinese maps
date from?
3. The early cartography of which
country gave the location of the
Pole Star?
4. What was Ptolemy’s treatise on
cartography called?
5. What is an explanation of a map’s
symbols called?
6. How many medieval Mappa
Mundi maps have survived to
the present day?
7. Which location was missing from
Arab geographer Muhammad al-
Idrisi’s atlas Tabula Rogeriana:
Asia, Europe, South America?
8. What was introduced in England
around 1620 that improved land-
measuring accuracy?
9. A 1715 map of which part
of the world is known as the
“Beaver Map”?
10. Some maps contain deliberate
errors to show the owners if
other mapmakers are infringing
on their copyright by using the
same mistake. True or False?
11. In which year did German
cartographer Martin Behaim
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of Earth?
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12. A detail of a map that is shown
on a larger scale on the same page
is called what?
13. In cartography, “drainage”
refers to areas of what?
14. Cartographer and creator of the
Mercator projection, Gerardus
Mercator, was born in which
modern-day country?
15. On a map, what are the
interlocking lines of latitude
and longitude called?
16. The directional indicator on a map
is its compass. True or False?
17. What line of latitude sits at
0 degrees?
18. Although Burma renamed
itself Myanmar, most new maps
continue to use the name Burma.
True or False?
19. How many panels did Martin
Waldseemüller’s giant 1507
globular world map use?
20. Which line measures distance
on a map?
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Polluting the Planet

1. How much domestic waste does the
city of New York produce each day?
2. Between 1960 and 2010, what
percentage of the world’s rain
forests were felled or burned?
3. NASA estimates that sea levels
are rising at what annual rate:
2
/100 in (0.5 mm), 4/100 in (1 mm),
12
/100 in (3 mm)?
14. Since the 1970s, large swathes
of mangrove forest have been
cleared to make way for what
type of development?
15. Which of the following animals is
critically endangered: brown bear,
African elephant, Amur leopard?
16. What is the main use of deforested
land in the Amazon Basin?

4. What is the main cause of smog
in modern cities?
5. Which human activity has had the
biggest impact on our landscape?
6. What percentage of methane
emissions results from
rice cultivation?
7. In which ocean is the “Great
Garbage Patch”?
8. Air pollution kills about 7 million
people each year. True or False?
17. Which of the following states
is most at risk of rising sea levels:
Washington, Florida, California?
18. Which toxic material is commonly
used in South American mines
to extract gold from its ore?
19. What is the most common source
of river pollution in the UK?
20. What has been called the most
polluted river in the world?

9. What combines with water vapor

to create acid rain?

10. Which of the following greenhouse

gases is most potent: CFCs, carbon
dioxide, methane?

11. Which rain forest is disappearing

the fastest?

12. Which pollutant caused a thinning

of the ozone layer over the poles
during the 1980s?

13. Climate change has been blamed for

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“bleaching” the coral reefs. What

happens to coral when it is bleached?

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Another Planet
1. Which planet is sometimes referred
to as the “morning star”?
2. Which planets are known as
the “inferior” planets?
3. What do astronomers call the
brightest meteors?
4. All of the planets are visible
to the naked eye except one.
Which one?
5. The volcano Olympus Mons is
found on which planet?
6. Which planet has the shortest day,
under 10 hours?
7. The Babylonians associated
which planet with Nergal, their
god of war and the underworld?
8. What is the Cassini Division?
9. Voyager 2 visited which planet on
January 24, 1986?
10. At the beginning and end of an
eclipse, patches of sunlight breaking
through around the edges of the
moon are known as what?
11. In degrees, what is Uranus’s
axial tilt?
12. What do astronomers call the small
particles of rocky debris orbiting
the sun in interplanetary space?
13. Which planet has the highest
wind speeds?
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Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt?
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15. What class of star is our sun
at present?
16. Who was the first woman in the
US to undergo astronaut testing?
17. Which planet has the longest day?
18. What name do astronomers give
for a time when Mercury or Venus
appear to move across the face
of the sun?
19. Who first described the “canals”
on Mars?
20. When two or more planets may
be viewed in the same line of sight,
what is the phenomenon called?
21. What objects make up the
Oort Cloud?
22. What is the name of the largest
moon in the solar system?
23. Which is the oldest type of star?
24. Which spacecraft has traveled
farthest from Earth?
25. How many galaxies are there
in the universe?
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Back to Earth

1. On average, Earth’s magnetic 14. An ophiolite is a part of the ocean

field switches polarity how often?
2. The axes of polarity and
rotation currently differ
by how many degrees?
3. Paleomagnetic fields provide a
chronological history of what?
4. Aurorae are caused by charged
particles trapped in Earth’s
magnetic field. True or False?
5. There was no oxygen in Earth’s
early atmosphere. True or False?
6. The intense expulsion of
gases from volcanoes is known
as what?
floor that has been pushed above
sea level by tectonic plates. True
or False?
15. The scientific study of rocks is
known as what?
16. When oceanic plates of
differing ages meet, which
one is drawn downward?
17. When two continental plates
meet, what is formed?
18. Convergence causes species
to do what?
19. What led to the formation
of tectonic plates?

7. Microorganisms convert 20. Adaptation of species to differing

carbon dioxide into oxygen conditions was caused by what?
by what process?

8. How do archaea differ from

most bacteria?

9. What does ultraviolet radiation

NOT split water into: helium,
ozone, hydrogen?

10. Stromatolites show that saline

oceans formed how long ago?

11. What was the name of the ocean

that surrounded the continents
before they separated?

12. Early tidal waves traveled at

what speed?

13. Whose map showed that the

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southern continents were once

part of a supercontinent?

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Energy!

1. What name is given to 14. Energy cannot be created or

stored energy?
2. Raising a ball above your head
is an example of kinetic energy.
True or False?
3. Why is stretching an elastic band
an example of potential energy?
destroyed, only transferred
from one form to another.
What is this statement?
15. An object with twice the mass
of another traveling at the same
speed has half the kinetic energy
of the other. True or False?

4. From where does the potential 16. The random movement of

energy in Huygens’s clock come?
5. Into what type of energy is the
potential energy in the weight
of Huygens’s clock transferred?
6. The mainspring in a mechanical
clock stores muscle energy as
potential energy. True or False?
7. A barrel rolls down a hill: where
is its potential energy lowest?
8. To release potential energy in
chemical reactions, the activation
energy of the chemicals must be
exceeded. True or False?
9. If PE = mgh, what is “g”?
particles through a solid, liquid,
or gas is known as what?
17. A man fires a pistol. How does
heat energy make the bullet
leave the gun?
18. Whose experiments proved
the principle of conservation
of matter?
19. The amount of heat energy needed
to raise the temperature of 1 kg of
water by 1ºC is known as what?
20. Joule spent his honeymoon
studying waterfalls to show
that heat energy is produced by
splashing water. True or False?

10. Which of the following does

NOT affect the amount of
potential energy an object has:
time, weight, height?

11. The energy of movement is

known as what?

12. The faster an object moves, and the

more mass it has, the more kinetic
energy it has. True or False?
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13. Kinetic energy is dependent on

mass and what else?

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Who Am I?
1. Which writer said, “No man
is an island”?
2. Who was this Scottish-Jamaican
nurse who looked after British
soldiers in the Crimea at the same
time as Florence Nightingale?
3. Who formed the New Model
Army and was Lord Protector
when England became a republic?
4. Who was Henry VIII’s
sixth wife?
5. Whose picture was used on the
famous “Your country needs you”
recruitment poster?
6. Who led the campaign for Indian
independence from Britain?
7. Who is the only person to
have been elected president
of the US four times?
8. Which group campaigned for
parliamentary reform in the
mid-19th century?
9. Who is credited with saying
“Veni, Vidi, Vici” (I came,
I saw, I conquered)?
10. Harriet Tubman and Sojourner
Truth worked for the Underground
Railroad organization; it was used
for helping whom?
11. Who is supposed to have said,
“By God they terrify me” when
talking about the British Army?
12. Who commanded the English fleet
against the Spanish Armada?
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13. Why was Dr. James Barry unusual
at the time?
14. Which book was based on the
experiences of Alexander Selkirk?
15. Who founded the Salvation Army?
16. Whose sons were the princes
in the Tower?
17. Who founded Methodism?
18. Who was the leader of the
Gunpowder Plot?
19. Who is the only British prime
minister to have been assassinated?
20. Who was the first elected
secretary-general of the UN?
21. Which mistress of Charles II is
supposed to have been the model
for the original image of Britannia?
22. Who was Mary Anne Evans
better known as?
23. Who made the first nonstop
flight across the Atlantic in a
Vickers Vimy bomber in 1919?
24. Who was the Greek military leader
who conquered as far as India in the
fourth century bce?
25. Who was the English king at the
Field of the Cloth of Gold?
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Where Have You Been?

1. Which town in Vietnam is 13. The flag of which country

known for its tailors and features a blue 24-spoke wheel
custom-made clothing? on a white background?

2. More than one-third of all 14. Eureka in Canada is the coldest

species in the world live in inhabited place on Earth. What
which rain forest? is the daily average temperature?

3. Manu Chao, the singer who
performs in languages including
English, Portuguese, French,
Arabic, and Spanish, is originally
from where?
4. The Great Pyramid of Cheops
in Egypt is the oldest of the Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World.
True or False?
5. What is the highest capital city
in the world?
6. The “Benevolent Mountains”
of India are geographically
known as what?
7. Which mountain is known
as “the Tiger of the Alps”?
8. An invasion of which territory
caused a war between the UK
and Argentina in 1982?
15. Japan is known for which of the
following sports: sumo wrestling,
mud wrestling, water wrestling?
16. The Guggenheim Museum
in Bilbao, Spain, exhibits
what type of art?
17. Where did rhythm and blues
music originate: United States,
Cuba, Brazil?
18. Which country is famous for
its Kabuki performances?
19. Australia’s Mount Wycheproof
is the smallest registered mountain
in the world. True or False?
20. Monaco has the oldest population
in the world. True or False?

9. In which Australian national

park would you find Uluru?

10. The state of Singapore consists

of one island. True or False?

11. What is the highest point

in New Zealand?

12. The Russian Federation is the

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world’s largest country. Which

is the world’s second largest?

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Famous Last Words

1. “I’ve never felt better” were the
last words of which actor?
2. Which scientist said: “I’d hate to
die twice. It’s so boring”?
3. “I have a terrific pain in the back
of my head.” These were the last
words of which US president?
4. “I’m tired of fighting! I guess
this thing is going to get me”
were said to have been the last
words of Harry Houdini. True
or False?
5. Which artist allegedly said:
“Drink to me, drink to my
health, you know I can’t drink
any more”?
6. “I’ve had eighteen straight whiskies,
I think that’s a record.” This was
said by which dying poet?
7. Which author is reported to
have commanded: “Go away.
I’m all right”?
8. “I wish I’d drunk more champagne”
was allegedly the final utterance
of which economist?
9. Florence Nightingale’s last
words were: “Nurse! Nurse!”
True or False?
12. “Goodnight my darlings, I’ll
see you tomorrow.” Which dying
playwright said this?
13. Which dying author is said to have
asked: “Does nobody understand?”
14. The last words of philosopher
Immanuel Kant were: “It is enough.”
True or False?
15. Which scientist is reported to
have said, “I am not the least afraid
to die” before he died?
16. “Last words are for fools who
haven’t said enough” were
supposedly the final words
of which influential thinker?
17. A famous actress allegedly said:
“Don’t you dare ask God to help
me!” before she died. Who was she?
18. Inventor Thomas Edison’s last
words were: “Wait! I’ve had
an idea!” True or False?
19. “Well, if it must be so” were the
parting words of which composer?
20. “The sun is God” were the
last words of which artist?

10. Which author is said to have

replied, “Nothing but death”
when asked if he or she
wanted anything?

11. “Oh, I am so bored with it all!”

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This final statement is attributed

to which famous statesman?

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 QUIZ 1–8
ANSWERS
Answers
QUIZ 1
1. Operation Overlord 2. Hiroshima
3. Hurricane 4. A VI flying bomb
5. Lightning war 6. Neville Chamberlain
7. Heinrich Himmler 8. USSR (Russia)
9. An airship 10. False, the top age was 45
11. In a backyard 12. A machine gun
13. USSR 14. A tank 15. A US bomber
aircraft 16. May 17. Rommel 18. Divine
wind 19. Poland 20. Stalingrad 21. No
22. Enigma 23. The bombing of Pearl
Harbor in 1941 24. France
25. The Soviet Union
QUIZ 2
1. 8th to 11th centuries 2. Sagas
3. Longships 4. The handle 5. False
6. Odin 7. Bone or antler 8. Lindisfarne
9. True 10. Armor made from small iron
rings 11. A figurehead 12. Leif Eriksson
13. 600–700 14. Axes 15. Christianity
16. Valhalla 17. Thor 18. Creek or inlet
19. Scandinavia—Norway, Sweden, and
Denmark 20. 1000
QUIZ 3
1. The Falkland Islands 2. Lord Nelson
3. USS Yorktown 4. Graf Spee 5. Mark
Antony 6. Duke of Medina Sidonia
7. Admiral Chester Nimitz 8. Mary Rose
9. General Belgrano 10. USS Nautilus
11. Jellicoe 12. HMS Victory 13. John
Paul Jones 14. Revenge 15. Barbarossa
16. RMS Lusitania 17. Admiral Yamamoto
18. Sir Francis Drake 19. Bismarck
20. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
QUIZ 4
1. Henry VII 2. Edward 3. James I
4. Queen Victoria 5. Elizabeth I
6. William I 7. King John 8. Kenneth
MacAlpin 9. Mary I (Mary Tudor)
10. Stephen 11. George 12. Henry V
13. King James 14. Edward VIII
15. Richard I 16. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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17. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd 18. Edward I
19. Henry VIII 20. Richard III 21. Only
1 child survived infancy—Prince William,
duke of Gloucester, who died at age 11
22. Ethelred II 23. King George II in
1743 24. King John 25. Queen Victoria
QUIZ 5
1. Giza 2. True 3. Flood 4. 3,000 years
5. Sandy white 6. True 7. Ramesses II
8. It means “Great House” 9. Khufu
10. 2.3 million 11. The Valley of the
Kings 12. Tutankhamun 13. Cartouche
14. Hieroglyphs 15 The Rosetta Stone
16. True 17. Anubis 18. The Book of
the Dead 19. True 20. Cleopatra
QUIZ 6
1. 1991 2. East/West 3. True
4. The Warsaw Pact 5. Cuba 6. Berlin
7. The Korean War 8. The Non-Aligned
Movement 9. 1949 10. President Ronald
Reagan 11. Hungary 12. 1961 13. True
14. False 15. KGB 16. George Marshall
17. 1989 18. True 19. President Richard
Nixon in 1972 20. He received two giant
pandas, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing
QUIZ 7
1. The Normans 2. The Great Hall
3. The Solar 4. True 5. Windsor Castle
6. Castle Drogo in 1930 7. Latrines
8. The Keep 9. The moat 10. Boiling
oil 11. True 12. True 13. True
14. Arrowslits 15. True 16. Crenels
17. Portcullis 18. A castle within a castle
19. The High Table 20. Pembroke
QUIZ 8
1. King Edward III 2. Jerusalem
3. Florence 4. Bank loans 5. The Black
Death 6. The Peasants’ Revolt 7. King
Henry II 8. Dysentery 9. Gothic
10. True 11. Marco Polo 12. Johannes
Gutenberg 13. Weapon 14. 4,500

15. The Moors 16. True 17. Archery
18. Towers 19. Eels were used
20. The legs
QUIZ 9
1. Richard III 2. Two 3. False
4. The Globe 5. Virginia 6. The
Reformation 7. Spain 8. Sir Francis Drake
9. Christopher Marlowe 10. True 11. Meat
12. Lunch 13. False 14. Hans Holbein
15. Lady Jane Grey 16. The marriage
between King Henry VII (of Lancaster)
and Elizabeth of York 17. False
18. King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
19. Groundlings, and in summer they were
also called “stinkards” 20. King Philip II
of Spain 21. True 22. False (knives,
spoons, fingers) 23. Elizabeth never
married 24. He is reported to have brought
potatoes and tobacco 25. A flag was flown
from the top of the building
QUIZ 10
1. Henry VIII 2. William Shakespeare
3. Margaret Thatcher 4. Louis Braille
5. Elizabeth I 6. Charles Dickens
7. Nefertiti 8. Winston Churchill 9. Samuel
Pepys 10. King Arthur 11. George
Washington 12. True 13. Boudicca
14. Blow up Parliament 15. Leonardo da
Vinci 16. Descartes 17. Siddhartha Gautama
18. True 19. Anne Frank 20. David
Livingstone 21. King Charles I 22. Lenin
23. Captain Scott 24. Joan of Arc
25. Mother Teresa
QUIZ 11
1. A battleship 2. Britain and France
3. 1914 4. Archduke Franz Ferdinand
5. The Western Front 6. Russia 7. King
George V 8. Trenches 9. Trench foot
10. Germany 11. The tank 12. The Battle
of the Somme 13. Because Germany
invaded Belgium 14. Manfred von
Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron
15. The Battle of Jutland 16. Mining or
tunneling 17. The area of land between
the fighting armies 18. United States
19. The ceasefire that ended the war
QUIZ 9–14
ANSWERS
20. 1918 21. Almost one million
22. Zeppelins 23. True. There wasn’t
enough space in the aircraft to carry a
parachute and it would add to the weight
of the plane. It was also thought that they
would encourage cowardice and provide
pilots with an easy escape route
24. The United States. John Joseph
Pershing commanded American armies
in France 25. Sidney Lewis was just 12
when he enlisted in 1915.
QUIZ 12
1. Oligarchy 2. City-state 3. Euclid
4. False 5. Agora 6. Training, wrestling,
and running 7. The Oracle and a temple to
Apollo 8. A temple of Athena 9. Sparta
10. Philosophy, science, and government
11. Alexander the Great 12. Marathon
13. Athens 14. A type of tunic worn by
both men and women 15. Homer 16. Athens
and Sparta 17. Pythagoras 18. Mount
Olympus 19. Zeus, the king of the gods
20. On a battlefield 21. False—only men
could be full citizens 22. Stone or clay,
and roofs were covered with tiles or reeds
23. They wore a variety of masks, wigs,
and padded costumes 24. The Olympic
Games 25. True
QUIZ 13
1. Ireland 2. True 3. Bronze 4. From
the beaker-shaped pottery they used
5. Stonehenge 6. Iron 7. Hill fort
8. Julius Caesar 9. Claudius 10. Hadrian’s
Wall 11. Boudicca 12. Chester or
“Caister” in the name 13. Ireland and
Scotland 14. St. Patrick 15. Angles,
Saxons, and Jutes 16. Offa’s Dyke 17. The
name given to the northern, central, and
eastern parts of England controlled by
the Danes in the late 9th century
18. Scandinavia 19. Alfred the Great
20. The Normans
QUIZ 14
1. True 2. Genghis Khan 3. Bismarck
4. Benito 5. Napoleon Bonaparte
6. Saladin 7. Julius Caesar
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ANSWERS
8. F. D. Roosevelt 9. 1979 10. True
11. Robert the Bruce 12. Mahatma
Gandhi 13. Garibaldi 14. Mao Zedong
15. Normandy 16. True 17. Germany
18. Egypt 19. Rushmore 20. Washington,
DC 21. Defeating Napoleon at the Battle of
Waterloo in 1815 22. He won the first
multiracial election in South Africa and
became president 23. Montgomery
24. Catherine the Great 25. Oliver Cromwell
QUIZ 15
1. 1917 2. Bolsheviks 3. Czar Nicholas II
4. The Red Guards 5. Prince Lvov
6. Vladimir Lenin 7. Potemkin 8. The
White Army (also known as the White Guard)
9. Leon Trotsky 10. With an ice pick
11. The Red Terror 12. Collectivization
13. “Man of Steel” 14. St. Petersburg
15. True 16. Finland 17. Alexander
Kerensky 18. Germany 19. Joseph Stalin
20. True
QUIZ 16
1. Prince Albert 2. The Hanoverian
3. Prepaid postage stamps 4. Black
5. Farmer 6. Political reform 7. Canada
8. Suez Canal 9. Ferdinand de Lesseps
10. The Corn Laws 11. Queen Victoria
(Victoria Regina) 12. False—Hyde Park
13. Sydenham 14. Ireland 15. Four
16. Benjamin Disraeli 17. Mrs. Beaton
18. Karl Marx 19. Isambard Kingdom
Brunel 20. Hyde Park 21. Florence
Nightingale 22. Charlotte, Emily, and
Anne Brontë 23. Charles Darwin
24. The workhouse 25. True
QUIZ 17
1. Oliver Cromwell 2. 1861 3. The
“Roundheads” often had short haircuts
4. The New Model Army 5. General
Franco 6. Gettysburg, in 1863 7. Charles
8. Sarajevo 9. The Vietnam War 10. 1642
11. Tito 12. The English royal houses of
Lancaster and York 13. True 14. The king
15. Stonewall 16. American Civil War
17. False 18. His horse was named Traveller
19. Ulysses S. Grant 20. Lincoln
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QUIZ 18
1. Turkey (Anatolia) 2. Central America
3. Persian 4. The handover of Hong Kong
5. Eastern Roman Empire 6. Egypt
7. India 8. Japan 9. Alexander the Great
10. Egypt 11. 1922 12. Genghis Khan
13. Turkey 14. Augustus 15. 14th century
16. The Akkadian Empire, in the Middle
East 17. The Aztec 18. True 19. 67 years
20. Timbuktu 21. A legal code
22. The Mogul Empire 23. Suleiman
the Magnificent 24. Cyrus the Great
25. Constantinople
QUIZ 19
1. Ukraine 2. Smallpox 3. SARS
4. Athens 5. 25 million 6. 60 percent
7. False 8. Pneumonic plague 9. True
10. Cats and dogs 11. Eyam 12. False
13. Anthrax 14. John Snow 15. 200 years
16. China 17. Syphilis 18. False 19. 1348
20. True 21. Black swellings on the bodies
of bubonic-plague victims 22. True 23. No,
only females 24. India 25. Smallpox
QUIZ 20
1. Hurling 2. Rome 3. True 4. Wrestling
5. A circlet of wild olive leaves 6. Persia
(modern-day Iran) 7. Minoan 8. 776 bce
9. None 10. Funerals 11. 50,000 people
12. The Circus Maximus 13. In Egyptian
wall paintings 14. Boxing 15. Joe Frazier
16. Tudor 17. Hockey 18. 19th century
19. 1840 20. True
QUIZ 21
1. Life 2. Hanging 3. Tricorne 4. 1831
5. Australia 6. Ned Kelly 7. 18th 8. Black
Bess 9. Dalmatian 10. The Beggar’s
Opera 11. Penny dreadful 12. Alfred Noyes
13. True 14. Adam and the Ants
15. Charles II 16. Hounslow Heath
17. The Bow Street Horse Patrol targeted
highwaymen after 1763 18. Claude Duval
19. Marble Arch 20. York
QUIZ 22
1. The Pequod 2. The crew mutinied
3. The right 4. The Nimrod

5. Christopher Columbus 6. The Mayflower
7. USS Constitution 8. The Cutty Sark
9. The Bismarck 10. HMS Invincible
11. 1912 12. True 13. The Argo 14. Captain
Edward John Smith 15. Captain Hook
16. It was the last US battleship to be
commissioned and was the site of the Japanese
surrender, which ended World War II
17. False—the back of a ship is the stern
18. Sir Francis Drake 19. RMS Carpathia
20. An oil tanker 21. Nautilus 22. Thor
Heyerdhal 23. Greenpeace 24. The
Fighting Temeraire 25. Mary Celeste
QUIZ 23
1. It was a primitive type of martial art that
combined wrestling and boxing 2. The
triple jump 3. Weights 4. 1896 5. England
6. True 7. Once 8. 1904 9. 1908 10. True
11. 1900 12. True 13. A running race known
as the “stadion” or “stade” 14. Zeus 15. 1928
16. 1924 17. Tennis and golf 18. Decathlon
and pentathlon (his medals were later restored)
19. Wrestling 20. Sevens
QUIZ 24
1. Colt 2. Jim “Killer Miller” 3. The
Wild Bunch 4. Dentist 5. William Henry
McCarty 6. John Wesley Hardin 7. Wild
Bill Hickok 8. In the Long Branch Saloon
in Dodge City 9. Virgil 10. Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid 11. Boot Hill
12. Thumb-busters 13. The Winchester rifle
14. As the site of the gunfight at the O.K.
Corral in 1881 15. Annie Oakley 16. Billy
the Kid 17. The Jesse James gang 18. Pat
Garrett 19. William Frederick Cody was
nicknamed “Buffalo Bill” after he shot
buffalo under contract to supply Kansas
Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat
20. The James-Younger gang 21. Clay
Allison 22. Johnny Ringo 23. Calamity
Jane 24. Robert Ford 25. He is thought to
have been 12 years old
QUIZ 25
1. Emperor Commodus 2. Munera 3. A
venator 4. Andabatae 5. A freed gladiator
returning to fight 6. Charon 7. In the
QUIZ 23–28
ANSWERS
afternoon 8. Public executions 9. 123 days
10. 10,000 11. Mitte! 12. 20 minutes
13. False 14. 36 trapdoors 15. A weapons
inspection 16. Thrace, a region east of
Greece 17. A retiarius 18. A ludus
19. True 20. Emperor Claudius 21. True.
They were called Essedarii 22. On horseback
23. True 24. Gladiators mainly ate a
vegetarian diet. This was probably because
it was cheaper than giving them meat
25. Gladiators training for combat used
wooden swords to avoid injury
QUIZ 26
1. Melees 2. William Marshal (c.1146–1219)
3. A rest area 4. A joust to the death
5. The 11th century 6. The quintain 7. False
8. Pope Innocent II 9. Surrey 10. Chretien
de Troyes, who wrote Erec and Enide, c.1170
11. Coronels were blunted tips on the point of
lances 12. Bear-baiting 13. Three 14. True
15. A funeral 16. Richard I of England
17. False 18. Unhorse another knight and
capture him 19. 1316 20. Blunted weapons
21. Tilt 22. The jousting shield placed on
the shoulder 23. 12 feet long 24. True
25. Henry II
QUIZ 27
1. The thick arrows were wrapped in pitch
and set alight. They set fire to wooden hulls
and sails 2. Galleasses 3. Robert Whitehead
in 1866 4. A ship able to join the line of battle
5. Exocets 6. Greek fire 7. Breaking the
French line 8. A World War II British
biplane torpedo bomber 9. The Mizzen mast
10. 64–80 11. It had three tiers or banks of
oars 12. His Turbinia had steam turbines
13. Q-ships 14. 18-inch 15. Wolf packs
16. Torpedo boat destroyer 17. 7,000 miles
18. Electric batteries 19. Fighting from the
advantageous windward side 20. A broadside
QUIZ 28
1. Helmuth von Moltke the Elder 2. Ramesses
II 3. Hannibal 4. Marcus Licinius Crassus
5. William Westmoreland 6. He lost
his right arm and right eye 7. Qin Shi
Huangdi 8. Belisarius 9. Charlemagne
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ANSWERS
10. William the Conqueror—King William I
11. King Richard I 12. Lord Kitchener
13. Genghis Khan 14. King Edward III
15. True 16. Oliver Cromwell 17. Duke
of Marlborough 18. Robert Clive 19. Von
Runstedt 20. General Robert E. Lee
QUIZ 29
1. Arbroath 2. Robert the Bruce 3. Fiery
Face 4. Thistle 5. True 6. False. Macbeth
reigned 1040–1057 7. Scotland and France
8. In 1707, by the Act of Union 9. Waverley
Station, Edinburgh 10. Bonnie Prince
Charles 11. The MacDonald clan
12. Fotheringhay Castle 13. Battle of
Stirling Bridge 14. King James IV 15. A
poet (1759–1796) 16. “Painted people”
17. Body snatchers 18. King Francis II of
France 19. Holy cross 20. January 25
21. James Edward Stuart—his son Charles
Edward Stuart was the Young Pretender, also
known as Bonnie Prince Charlie 22. The
Dress Act of 1746 meant that it was illegal for
the Scots to wear Highland Dress, which
included tartan and kilts 23. King David I
in the 12th century 24. Most of the buildings
in the city center were constructed using a
silver-colored granite. Aberdeen is also
called the Silver City 25. A white X-shaped
cross on a blue background. The flag is
known as “the Saltire”
QUIZ 30
1. New Zealand 2. 1893 3. 1918 4. 1920
5. Emily Davison 6. Mrs. Pankhurst
7. The right to vote 8. True 9. World
War I 10. The UK 11. Liechtenstein
12. 1984 13. The Daily Mail 14. 2015
15. True 16. Hunger strike 17. True
18. Imprisoned suffragists who were
seriously weakened by the hunger strike
could be released early 19. True 20. 1928
QUIZ 31
1. Whispering Gallery 2. Lhasa 3. Lebanon
4. Mexico City 5. Jordan 6. Sikh
7. Machu Picchu 8. The Chrysler Building
9. Sydney Harbour Bridge 10. Mud bricks
11. The Monument 12. Pompidou Centre
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13. Sky Bridge 14. St. Basil 15. NASA
16. The Eiffel Tower 17. A mausoleum
18. False 19. Barcelona 20. Cheops
21. The Empire State Building 22. Doric
23. Mud brick, known as “earthen
architecture” 24. Limestone and
granite 25. True
QUIZ 32
1. Augustus 2. A giant statue of a
reclining mythical creature with the
head of a human and the body of a lion
3. Poseidon 4. To channel water into
Roman towns and cities 5. Ra 6. Retiarius
7. Galen 8. Nebuchadnezzar 9. Greek
10. Aquae Sulis 11. Papyrus had a variety
of uses, but it was specially cultivated to be
used as paper 12. A temple 13. Spartacus
14. The Yangtze River 15. Luxor,
Egypt 16. The Roman 17. Socrates
18. Thermopylae 19. Claudius 20. Greek
21. A ball game called pok-a-tok or
hotchpotch 22. Benin Bronzes 23. True
24. For mock naval battles 25 Trepanning
QUIZ 33
1. Anne Boleyn 2. Pope Adrian VI
3. Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver Cromwell)
4. Eleanor of Aquitaine 5. King Edward II
6. Lord Darnley 7. King Alfonso XIII
8. King Manuel II 9. King Henry VI
10. Marie Antoinette 11. C. B. Fry
12. False (Holyrood Palace) 13. Corfu
14. Jordan 15. Grimaldi 16. False
17. Simeon II of Bulgaria 18. The
Netherlands 19. George IV 20. Japan
QUIZ 34
1. 866 2. 1119 3. 1215 4. 1922 5. 1413
6. 1543 7. 1431 8. 1635 9. 1616 10. 1692
11. 1711 12. 1796 13. 1770 14. 1817
15. 1776 16. 1846 17. 1861 18. 1934
19. 1934 20. 1905 21. 1926 22. 1929
23. 1876 24. 1875 25. 1665
QUIZ 35
1. In the afternoon 2. Public executions
3. A retarius 4. During the funerals of
wealthy people 5. Public entertainments

6. Julius Caesar 7. Criminals or prisoners
of war who fought in arenas against wild
animals 8. A secutor 9. He put restrictions
on all other games 10. Six days 11. The
animal hunts 12. Emperor Caligula
13. Lightly armored. He wore a large
broad-rimmed helmet with a griffin crest,
carried a small round or square-shaped
shield and thigh-length armor (known as
“greaves”), and fought with a curved sword
14. Emperor Nero 15. Emperor Commodus
16. Hercules 17. Emperor Claudius
18. To absorb the blood of the dead and
wounded 19. 264 bce 20. False
QUIZ 36
1. Venice 2. China 3. 1841 4. 10 days
5. Spain 6. Manchester 7. Turkey
8. Galicia 9. The Grand Tour 10. Santa
Maria 11. Daniel Defoe 12. True 13. Up
to 120 men 14. Indonesia 15. India
16. 1831 17. Kent 18. 1810 19. The Great
Western Railway (GWR) 20. Sedan chair
QUIZ 37
1. Mexico 2. A jaguar 3. Warfare
4. Excrement of the Gods 5. Spain
6. True 7. Swampland 8. Serpent Skirt
9. Obsidian 10. True 11. Cocoa beans
12. True 13. Hernán Cortés 14. True
15. The Aztec emperor Moctezuma II
16. 50% 17. True 18. Floating gardens
for crop growing 19. They ran
20. 16th century 21. Moctezuma II
22. The Aztec calendar had 18 months
with 20 days in each one 23. True
24. Eagles or jaguars 25. The skin
of human sacrifices
QUIZ 38
1. Sagrada Família 2. Antoni Gaudí
3. A salt mine 4. The Church of the Rock
5. Its monolithic churches carved from rock
6. Notre-Dame 7. Canterbury Cathedral
8. Saint Basil’s 9. Coventry Cathedral
10. St. Mark’s Basilica 11. St. Peter’s
12. Notre-Dame de Reims 13. Baptistery
of San Giovanni, part of the Duomo in
Florence 14. Lorenzo Ghiberti
QUIZ 36–42
ANSWERS
15. Norway 16. St. Paul’s 17. True
18. True 19. Westminster Abbey
20. In the shape of a cross
QUIZ 39
1. 1861 and 1865 2. More than three
million 3. True 4. 2,000 5. The Battle
of Shiloh 6. The CSS Manassas 7. False
8. 1862 9. Henry Stanley 10. Bounty
jumpers 11. 3,500 12. Clara Barton,
known as “the American Nightingale”
13. True 14. 180,000 15. 1864 16. Three
17. True 18. False 19. 15% 20. True
21. Reconstruction 22. Richmond
23. Jefferson Davis 24. Five 25. Maine
QUIZ 40
1. Tin 2. A grocer 3. Aurifaber
4. Higgler 5. True 6. A shoemaker
7. True 8. Early law enforcement officers
9. True 10. Arrows 11. A crooked lawyer
12. Sweeping streets 13. Fish 14. A puddler
15. A lavender—a washerwoman
16. A tapley 17. True 18. Cleaned houses
19. Sweets 20. True
QUIZ 41
1. Heathen wizards 2. He wanted to
encourage settlement 3. It was kept in a
barrel of brandy 4. They were held together
with coconut rope 5. True 6. Ferdinand
Magellan 7. Vitamin C deficiency
8. The mouth of large whales 9. 99 days
10. Steam-powered paddle ships
11. A navigation aid 12. Little shirt
13. Vasco da Gama 14. Finding latitude
15. 50 16. John P. Holland 17. His crew
didn’t want to burn ships 18. True
19. Government-sponsored pirates
20. Portuguese
QUIZ 42
1. Sir Robert Walpole 2. Ancient Greek
Herodotus 3. Thomas Newcomen
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt 5. Harry S.
Truman 6. Tim Berners-Lee 7. Spain
8. Barack Obama 9. Archduke Franz
Ferdinand 10. Lenin 11. Mao Zedong
12. Brigham Young 13. Alessandro Volta
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ANSWERS
14. John Harington 15. Orville and Wilbur
Wright. They made the first powered human
flight in 1903 16. Pope Gregory XIII
17. July 21 1969 18. Henry Dunant
19. Dr. Christiaan Barnard 20. Louis
Braille 21. Robert Baden-Powell, in 1908
22. Benjamin Franklin 23. Alexander
Graham Bell 24. Yuri Gagarin, a Russian
Air Forces pilot 25. Karl Benz
QUIZ 43
1. By observing the stars 2. Claudius
Ptolemy 3. The Incense Road 4. The
Phoenicians 5. The Pacific 6. Henry the
Navigator 7. West Africa 8. The lateen
sail 9. Map making 10. Spain and
Portugal 11. The sextant 12. Christopher
Columbus 13. Shorter route to Asia (north
of America) 14. Chronometer 15. Abel
Tasman 16. To find the Great Southern
Continent—Terra Australis Incognita
17. Mungo Park 18. Meriwether Lewis
and William Clark 19. David Livingstone
20. Roald Amundsen
QUIZ 44
1. 1747 2. The War of Jenkins’ Ear
3. Manchester 4. Cromwell 5. Battle of
Towton, 1461, in the English War of the
Roses 6. King Edward VIII 7. Crimean
8. Mary, Queen of Scots 9. 1801
10. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius
11. 13 days 12. Boyne 13. Tony Blair
14. The Battle of Hastings 15. Isambard
Kingdom Brunel 16. 1999 17. True
18. William Pitt the Younger 19. The
Phoney War 20. William Wilberforce
21. 1840s 22. 6 counties 23. Easter
24. Mary I 25. Archbishop Cranmer
QUIZ 45
1. 753 bce 2. Romulus and Remus
3. Etruscan 4. The toga 5. Set underwater
6. The senate 7. True 8. A legion
9. Bad luck 10. 50,000 people 11. The
Carthaginians 12. 80 13. Cruel 14. Stolas
15. Roads 16. Six 17. Being a citizen
18. False 19. Pompeii and Herculaneum
20. A hypocaust 21. 476 ce 22. Julius
472
Caesar 23. Augurs 24. Trajan’s Column
25. The Byzantine Empire or Byzantium
QUIZ 46
1. ½ in (1 cm) 2. Pupil 3. Tongue
4. Outer brain 5. Humerus 6. Muscle
7. Liver 8. Spine 9. Ball-and-socket
10. Four 11. False 12. Kidney
13. A grape 14. Mitochondria 15. Skin
16. False 17. Thigh 18. True 19. Thigh
20. Larynx 21. Hands and feet 22. Eyes
23. The lungs 24. Color blindness
25. Colon
QUIZ 47
1. Direct current 2. An electromagnet
3. Water 4. 1920s 5. A plus sign +
6. Milkshake parlors 7. 1921 8. Decode
enemy messages 9. Transistor 10. 1946
11. Telegraph 12. Static electricity
13. Kilowatt-hours 14. Zinc 15. Electrical
current 16. 1961 17. To insulate against
electricity 18. Heart 19. False
20. A circuit
QUIZ 48
1. The sun 2. Solar cells 3. Fossil fuels
4. A very large mirror 5. Carbon dioxide
6. False 7. Pipeline 8. Yes 9. The North
Sea 10. Because it is dangerously radioactive
11. True 12. Fracking 13. Nitrogen oxide
and sulfur dioxide 14. France 15. True
16. Highland regions 17. Dams are expensive
to build 18. True 19. Biomass 20. Yes
QUIZ 49
1. Yuri Gagarin 2. Valentina Tereshkova
3. 15 minutes 4. 1969 5. Buzz Aldrin
6. Edward White 7. Walter Schirra
8. 12 9. Eagle 10. The first artificial
satellite in orbit 11. 1957 12. Laika the
dog 13. To crash-land on the moon
14. The first US satellite 15. Surveyor
16. Sailor of the universe 17. Star sailor
18. Kennedy 19. True 20. Florida
21. Traveler 22. Saturn 5 23. 1958
24. National Aeronautics and Space
Administration 25. 12 hours
(and 36 minutes)

QUIZ 50
1. 30,000 2. In your bones 3. 206 4. 27
5. Tennis court 6. 10 to 15 times 7. True
8. Capillaries 9. 25 million 10. True
11. 1 minute 12. Unconscious 13. To
frown 14. Red blood cells 15. Your skin
16. Valves 17. Beard hair 18. The brain
19. True 20. Month 21. About 35 tons
22. True 23. 20 24. Heart
25. Respiratory system
QUIZ 51
1. True 2. The London Eye 3. Race car
driver 4. The brakes 5. To improve road-
holding 6. True 7. A four-wheel-drive
vehicle 8. A multi-tool or pocket knife
with other tools attached 9. True 10. A lock
for doors 11. 1971 12. A very accurate
watch 13. Photographic film 14. Horology
15. Cog wheels 16. A quartz crystal
17. Perambulators 18. A widget
19. True 20. True 21. The bell inside
the Clock Tower at the Palace of
Westminster 22. 1700s 23. A small
manufactured item, a gadget 24. True
25. 1901
QUIZ 52
1. True 2. Runway 3. It has two sets of
main wings 4. The United States Air Force
(USAF) 5. Gas engine 6. Flyer 1 7. Four
engines 8. Tiredness from changing time
zones 9. Left 10. Wood 11. A plane from
an aircraft carrier 12. Black box 13. The
English Channel 14. Vertically 15. Spirit
of St. Louis 16. Voyager 17. -58ºF (-50ºC)
18. True 19. Concorde 20. First across
the Atlantic Ocean
QUIZ 53
1. Red 2. True 3. False 4. 10 miles
(16 km) 5. It sucks extra air into the
engine 6. It is strong and light 7. A
red bus 8. A type of speed camera
9. More than 65 ft (20 m)—in fact, about
75 ft (23 m) 10. A safety device for
car passengers 11. 1956 12. Horse
13. False 14. Cat’s eye 15. Ermine
Street 16. True 17. True 18. To reduce
QUIZ 50–57
ANSWERS
the pressure on the road 19. John McAdam
20. Mud and snow
QUIZ 54
1. True 2. Seed 3. A plow 4. Hay
5. True 6. As insulation against the cold
7. No 8. Chemicals for killing pests
9. Plants are kept warmer 10. It traps heat
from the sun 11. To improve traction
12. True (mobile and stationary steam
engines were used) 13. Tubers 14. To
stop bacteria from growing 15. Hydraulics
16. Irrigation 17. Because plants use
up nitrogen 18. They get an electric shock
19. Yes 20. Light from the sun
QUIZ 55
1. Mercury 2. 5 billion years 3. Milky
Way galaxy 4. Mercury 5. Mars
6. Apollo 7. Sun 8. False 9. Crux
10. Sirius 11. No 12. Apollo 8 13. Mars
and Jupiter 14. Venus 15. Mars 16. A
black hole 17. Halley 18. International
Space Station 19. True 20. Saturn
21. The sun 22. Pluto 23. Venus
24. The Roman god of war 25. Earth
QUIZ 56
1. Energy, stored as sugar or glucose
2. Chlorophyll 3. True 4. The sun
5. Marsupials 6. Vaccinations 7. Blood
8. Once a month 9. The mercury
thermometer 10. In the blood 11. No
12. False 13. Hemoglobin 14. Africa
15. Louis Pasteur 16. Canines 17. Linnaeus
18. To facilitate pollination 19. Birds
20. Mammalia
QUIZ 57
1. Solid 2. True 3. Hard 4. 32ºF (0ºC)
5. 212ºF (100ºC) 6. Crystalline and
amorphous 7. Liquid crystal display
8. Yes 9. When a liquid turns into a gas
10. Hydrogen 11. It sinks 12. To spread
out 13. Yes 14. Nitrogen 15. Carbon
16. It goes out 17. Elements 18. pH scale
19. 10 20. Lemon juice 21. True
22. When a solid changes into a gas
23. Liquid 24. False 25. Freezing
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 58
1. Antiseptics in surgery 2. HMS Beagle
3. A unit of force 4. True 5. Radium
6. Leonardo da Vinci 7. Florence
Nightingale 8. Seeing an apple fall from
a tree 9. Bacteria 10. K 11. Neil Armstrong
12. False 13. Radio 14. Alfred Nobel
15. Alexander Fleming 16. No 17. Heredity
18. Ernest Rutherford 19. Silicon
20. Samuel Morse
QUIZ 59
1. True 2. His daughter 3. The pneumatic
tire 4. Rudolph Diesel 5. 1911 6. Yes
7. Airships 8. A British flying boat
9. First flight across the Atlantic in 1919
10. By sea in passenger liners 11. Titanic
12. An open-topped motor coach 13. The
Austin Seven 14. True 15. The de Havilland
DH106 Comet 16. The hovercraft
17. Motorcycles 18. The two-stroke
motor scooter 19. The passenger jet
20. 747
QUIZ 60
1. R2-D2 2. False 3. Isaac Asimov
4. A radio-controlled boat 5. True
6. The elderly and disabled 7. Metropolis
8. Three 9. It helped build cars 10. Robby
11. Replicants 12. Sing 13. Transformers
14. Pick and place 15. Surgery 16. KITT
17. I, Robot 18. Less than 1 percent
19. An android 20. True
QUIZ 61
1. True 2. Diffuse reflection 3. Joule
4. Thermometer 5. Conduction 6. They
expand 7. They contract 8. Convection
9. Longitudinal 10. True 11. Solids
12. 30 degrees 13. They converge
14. True 15. Refraction 16. They diverge
17. Reflection 18. Retina 19. Aperture
20. Convex lenses
QUIZ 62
1. A wandering uterus 2. Austrian
3. Measurements of the human skull
4. True 5. Analytical psychology
6. Ego, id, superego 7. Nature and
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nurture 8. False 9. Memory
10. William Stern 11. Dogs
12. Willingness to obey authority
13. Hypnosis 14. Carl Jung 15. Children
16. Four 17. That people remember
uncompleted tasks better 18. Three:
semantic, episodic, procedural
19. James Vicary 20. Children bond
with parents due to food
QUIZ 63
1. The space shuttle 2. Venus 3. Buzz
Aldrin 4. International Space Station
5. Sulfuric acid 6. Mars 7. Craters
8. Saturn 9. Neptune 10. Magellan
11. Mars Exploration Rover mission
12. The asteroid belt 13. A cloud of dust
14. True 15. Volcanoes 16. Saturn
17. 180 billion 18. Clouds 19. Yes
20. Titan
QUIZ 64
1. Joseph Swan 2. Germany
3. Theory of relativity 4. Mechanics
5. Hippocrates 6. Archimedes 7. True
8. True 9. Lightning is a form of electricity
10. Michael Faraday 11. Pressure and
volume 12. Encrypt and decrypt messages
13. Wilhelm Röntgen 14. Stephen
Hawking 15. Smallpox 16. Sound
amplification 17. Hot-air balloon
18. Guglielmo Marconi 19. Johannes
Gutenberg 20. China 21. True
22. 23 pairs (46) 23. Gsregor Mendel,
who was an Austrian monk 24. A, T, G,
and C 25. Mutation
QUIZ 65
1. Gyrocompass 2. Magnetized by
magnet’s south pole 3. Aurora Borealis
4. Lodestone 5. True 6. MRI 7. Hans
Christian Ørsted 8. Current electricity
9. The direction of force on the conductor
10. Direction the wire moves
11. Alternators 12. Steam 13. Step-up
14. Constant flow of electrons
15. Filament 16. Resistance
17. The free electrons move around
18. Low 19. 1947 20. Velocity

QUIZ 66
1. 18 years 2. Brick 3. China
4. Seismometer 5. Archimedes
6. John Smeaton 7. 1600s 8. Robert
Hooke 9. The refrigerator 10. Benjamin
Franklin 11. Pennsylvania 12. Seine
13. Joseph Paxton 14. Alexander Graham
Bell 15. The Parthenon 16. True
17. The Eiffel Tower 18. Dubai 19. John
A. Roebling 20. 16.7 miles (27 km)
QUIZ 67
1. True 2. Hummingbirds 3. Oxygen
4. One hour 5. 100 million tons (91 million
metric tonnes) 6. 700 million 7. Alcohol
8. True 9. Yes 10. Venus 11. 6 miles
(10 km) 12. Four 13. Eyeballs
14. Giraffe 15. 24 hours 16. 500,000
17. Methane 18. A flea 19. True
20. 5 billion 21. Elasmosaurus
22. Nitrous oxide 23. Stonehenge
24. Genetics 25. Developing lobotomy
QUIZ 68
1. A sheep 2. False 3. Twig 4. Yes
5. Less than 10 percent 6. True 7. A tadpole
8. Little Nicky 9. South Korea 10. A
Tasmanian “tiger” or Thylacine 11. True
12. Brave New World 13. 2008 14. Yes
15. Star Wars 16. Pokémon 17. True
18. Jurassic Park 19. No 20. Dolly
QUIZ 69
1. 1981 2. The Harvard Mark I
Computer 3. 1951 4. Alan Turing
5. Remington Rand 6. $1 million
7. 1911 8. International Business Machines
9. Spacewar 10. The mouse 11. The first
RAM memory chip 12. 1971 13. Steve
Wozniak 14. The Osborne I 1981
15. Complex number calculation
16. 1985 17. The Commodore 64
18. 1982 and 1993 19. Linus Torvalds
20. Doom
QUIZ 70
1. Galileo Galilei 2. Aristotle 3. Charles
Darwin 4. Ernest Rutherford 5. The
uncertainty principle 6. Inventing the
QUIZ 66–74
ANSWERS
electric battery 7. Thomas Edison 8. Louis
Pasteur 9. Marie Curie 10. Alan Turing
11. Lise Meitner 12. Guglielmo Marconi
13. Nicolaus Copernicus 14. Archimedes
15. Michael Faraday 16. Leonardo da
Vinci 17. Penicillin 18. Alfred Binet
19. Stephen Hawking 20. Isaac Newton
QUIZ 71
1. False 2. An aerodynamic shell
3. Yuri Gagarin 4. True 5. 3 6. False
7. Meteorite 8. Uranus 9. True 10. False
11. They are still there 12. 1990 13. True
14. Mars 15. 1962 16. True 17. Japan
18. False 19. They have all investigated
Jupiter 20. Mars Express
QUIZ 72
1. Hennessey Venom F5 2. Ferrari
F40 3. True 4. Lamborghini Miura
5. Diablo 6. Michael Schumacher
7. Sweden 8. Bristol Fighter 9. Panther 6
10. Toyota 2000GT 11. Ferrari California
12. A fighting bull 13. Audi 14. Spyker
15. False 16. Volkswagen 17. Juan
Manuel Fangio 18. DB9 19. Koenigsegg
CCR 20. Ferrari F40 21. True
22. First championship for electric
single-seat racing cars 23. A serpent
24. 959 25. Palo Alto, California
QUIZ 73
1. Egyptian 2. Chloroform 3. True
4. Babylonian 5. Hippocrates 6. An
operation 7. A 30-volume medical
encyclopedia 8. The human circulatory
system 9. Clean hands 10. A toe
11. 1970s 12. The Crimean War 13. True
14. 1920s 15. True 16. 1948 17. True
18. The sweating sickness 19. The
Egyptians 20. That the disease
was waterborne
QUIZ 74
1. Saturn 2. 63 3. Potentially
hazardous objects 4. Jupiter
5. Nitrogen 6. Mercury 7. Apollo
8. Rings 9. Earth 10. Sunspots
11. Troposphere 12. Venus
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ANSWERS
13. Eugene Cernan 14. Uranus
15. 1959 16. The Kuiper Belt 17. Neptune
18. Ganymede 19. Mars 20. Saturn
21. A blue giant 22. By nuclear fusion
23. It turns into a planetary nebula
24. Two stars orbiting each other
25. Exoplanets
QUIZ 75
1. Pull 2. Richard Trevithick 3. The Maglev
4. The Rocket 5. The roundhouse
6. The caboose 7. 1863 8. Any vehicle
that moves on a railway line 9. China
10. Sand 11. A wheeled wagon or trolley
12. The tank car 13. False 14. Paris
and Istanbul 15. The English Channel
16. 28 17. A high-speed train 18. True
19. The United States 20. Flying Scotsman
QUIZ 76
1. Helical 2. Cytosine 3. Spindle-shaped
4. Amino acids 5. 46 6. An enzyme
7. Catabolism 8. A hiatal hernia
9. Diverticular disease 10. To clean the
blood 11. 51 oz (1.5 liters) 12. Lungs
13. Bile 14. The epiglottis 15. Stem cells
16. The aorta 17. Heavy periods 18. In
the skull 19. A fertilized egg 20. Canines
21. The large bowel 22. The small
intestine 23. In your nose
24. The pancreas 25. Ureters
QUIZ 77
1. A diagnosis and treatment manual
2. Insulin to treat diabetes 3. Fastest
amputation 4. Coca-Cola 5. A hot
summer’s “Great Stink” caused by
untreated sewage in the Thames
River 6. Capillaries 7. Opthalmology
8. To prevent morning sickness
9. Opium 10 A mechanical hand
11. International Red Cross 12. Aspirin
13. Whip themselves 14. Edwin
Chadwick 15. True 16. The 1930s
17. Oveta Culp Hobby 18. Mercury
19. The stethoscope 20. An ice-cream
freezer 21. Cutting a hole in the skull
22. 1123 23. True 24. Queen Victoria
25. 1895
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QUIZ 78
1. Advanced Research Projects Agency
Network 2. Defense 3. The Soviet launch
of the Sputnik satellite 4. J. C. R. Licklider
5. True 6. Bob Metcalfe 7. ALOHANET
8. SATNET 9. Vint Cerf 10. The Father
of the Internet 11. 1980s 12. Ted Nelson
13. The World Wide Web 14. Marc
Andreessen 15. Stanford University
16. 1994 17. 1998 18. 2001 19. Web 2.0
20. True
QUIZ 79
1. Alfred Nobel 2. Water 3. Nitrous oxide
4. Carbon 5. Cobalt 6. Sublimation
7. Potassium 8. A noble gas 9. NaCl
10. False 11. Carbon 12. False 13. Au
14. Eats away at materials 15. Aluminum
16. Nucleus 17. Tin 18. The study of
compounds that make up living things
19. Mercury 20. Two
QUIZ 80
1. The ecliptic 2. Degrees 3. Right
ascension 4. 62 miles (100 km)
5. False 6. Ursa Major 7. M81 Bode’s
Galaxy 8. Polaris 9. Betelgeuse
10. Rigel 11. M42 12. Sirius, in Canis
Major 13. -1.4 14. 88 15. First quarter
16. Leonids 17. Jupiter 18. Shorter tube,
so more portable 19. 10 in (250 mm)
20. Arecibo, Puerto Rico 21. False
22. Four 23. 6% 24. Infrared
25. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
QUIZ 81
1. Marie Curie 2. Aristotle 3. Antonie
van Leeuwenhoek 4. Albert Einstein
5. Sailors 6. Nagasaki 7. Joseph Bazalgette
8. Galápagos Islands 9. The gyrocompass
10. Sir Francis Bacon 11. Vulcanization
12. Christiaan Barnard 13. Gillette
14. Artist and architect 15. Steam engine
16. The aqualung 17. Poliomyelitis
18. A device used in irrigation
19. Thermostat 20. Eratosthenes
21. The structure of DNA 22. The Nobel
Prize 23. Atomic research 24. Ferdinand
Cohn 25. True

QUIZ 82
1. Move 2. Crustaceans 3. Itch mite
4. Bacteria 5. 1896 6. Hepatitis A
7. Invade and kill bacteria and archaea
8. Listeria 9. Edward Jenner 10. 1978
11. A rhinovirus 12. Whooping cough
13. Protista 14. Lyme disease
15. Cinchona 16. 1928 17. A prion
18. Anthrax 19. Sun animals
20. Plasmodium
QUIZ 83
1. Albert Einstein 2. The Pythagorean
theorem 3. Pi 4. Euler’s number
5. The fundamental theorem of calculus
6. Hooke’s law of elasticity 7. An equation
of linear systems 8. Ohm’s law 9. The
principle of buoyancy 10. Bernoulli’s
principle 11. Atomic theory 12. True
13. James Clerk Maxwell 14. Circumference
of a circle 15. Newton’s Second Law
16. E = Pt 17. Mitchell Feigenbaum
18. False 19. A crown 20. Energy
and mass times the speed of light
QUIZ 84
1. Chernobyl 2. 18 miles (30 km)
3. 4,375 4. The worst-ever industrial
chemical leak 5. 12,000 6. Nuclear
accident following earthquake and tsunami
7. One month 8. The Aral Sea 9. 1976
10. 80,000 11. A partial meltdown
12. The detonation of an explosives cargo
ship 13. Columbia 14. A stampede
by pilgrims 15. The train derailed
16. China 17. True 18. More than
seven months 19. The Pacific Ocean
20. 1989
QUIZ 85
1. 1971 2. Pony car 3. 1987 4. Bugatti
Veyron 5. Tyrrell Racing 6. True
7. Juventus 8. Volkswagen Group 9. AMC
10. 3 11. Toyota 12. CX 13. Renault RS10
14. True 15. Midship Runabout two-seater
16. Ford Escort RS Cosworth 17. Ferrari
Testarossa 18. Triumph GT6 19. 1953
20. Daimler 21. Sweden 22. Ferrari F40
23. True 24. 1906 25. Diablo
QUIZ 82–89
ANSWERS
QUIZ 86
1. Paleogene 2. Australopithecus
afarensis 3. Living in or among trees
4. 1.20% 5. A thick femur and short
pelvis 6. 1995 7. The Black Skull
8. He had massive jaws and cheek teeth
9. Homo habilis 10. Homo ergaster
11. The hand ax 12. Migrate 13. Java,
Indonesia 14. Pioneer man 15. Middle
Pleistocene 16. Liang Bua Cave,
Indonesia 17. Island dwarfism
18. Germany 19. Wise man
20. A chin
QUIZ 87
1. Dog sleds 2. 1820 ce 3. True
4. Zero 5. 30% 6. Aurora Australis
7. True 8. False 9. Fabian Bellingshausen
10. 100% 11. Trapped air contains past
atmospheres 12. 1961 13. Glacial
14. Four 15. Emperor penguin 16. True
17. 179 18. False 19. Land surrounded
by sea 20. Antarctic
QUIZ 88
1. Stephen Hawking 2. Baikonur
Cosmodrome 3. 1981 4. Payload
Assist Module 5. True 6. Five 7. 23 days
8. Two areas on board the ISS 9. Sixteen
10. He made the first spacewalk
11. Transmit pictures of Earth 12. The
service module 13. Mare Tranquillitatis
14. Apollo 15 15. Duststar 16. The
first Mars rover 17. Titan 18. True
19. Pluto 20. True 21. Dwight D.
Eisenhower 22. Fred Hoyle
23. 400 times 24. Mercury
25. 17,885 mph (28,783 kmph)
QUIZ 89
1. Au 2. The number of protons and
neutrons 3. Potential of hydrogen
4. Bakelite 5. True 6. Ammonia
7. Linus Pauling 8. Dmitri Mendeleev
9. Silver 10. Oxygen 11. Ionic
12. Protons, electrons, and neutrons
13. True 14. Sulfuric acid 15. Robert
Boyle 16. -ane 17. Joseph Priestley
18. Transition 19. Carbon 20. Two
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 90
1. Meissner’s corpuscles
2. False 3. Just above your kidneys
4. Destroys harmful substances
5. Limbic system 6. Pectoralis minor
7. Synesthesia 8. Saccule 9. True
10. Temporomandibular 11. Buttock
12. Rhinoplasty 13. False 14. Silver
15. Mouth 16. Antibodies 17. True
18. Beta cells 19. Pyrogen 20. False
21. Taste it 22. Blood groups were
discovered 23. Penicillin 24. The
poppy 25. Heart
QUIZ 91
1. Stratford-upon-Avon 2. False
3. Hamlet 4. Elizabeth I 5. 36 6. Nothing
7. The Globe 8. Othello 9. Romeo and
Juliet 10. Histories 11. The Tempest
12. True 13. 30,000 14. Mark Antony
15. Macbeth 16. Titania 17. Blank verse
18. As You Like It 19. Henry V 20. 14
21. Gertrude 22. Anne Hathaway
23. 154 24. A Comedy of Errors
25. Twelfth Night
QUIZ 92
1. The Hunger Games 2. Hilary Mantel
3. Jeff Kinney 4. Normal People
5. Discworld series 6. The Casual
Vacancy 7. False 8. The Twilight Saga
9. Swedish 10. True 11. True 12. Anne
Hathaway 13. The Da Vinci Code
14. Jamie Oliver 15. The Handmaid’s
Tale 16. The Hobbit 17. George R. R.
Martin 18. False 19. James Patterson
20. Michelle Obama
QUIZ 93
1. Ian Fleming 2. Life of Pi 3. Stephenie
Meyer 4. Philip Marlowe 5. John
Grisham 6. Ian McEwan 7. J. D. Salinger
8. The Color Purple 9. Animal Farm
10. Narnia 11. David Baldacci 12. No
Country for Old Men 13. Albert Camus
14. About a Boy 15. The Subtle Knife
16. Agatha Christie 17. Bill Bryson
18. Roald Dahl 19. The Silmarillion
20. Discworld
478
QUIZ 94
1. Michelangelo 2. Campbell’s 3. Constable
4. Cubism 5. William Hogarth 6. Greek
7. True 8. Sunflowers 9. Leonardo da
Vinci 10. Salvador Dalí 11. False
12. Auguste Rodin 13. Late 18th century
14. False, it is Angel of the North
15. Edvard Munch 16. Monet 17. Portraits
18. French 19. Sculpture 20. Abstract
21. David Hockney 22. Seurat
23. Jackson Pollock 24. Theatrical
posters 25. Toulouse-Lautrec
QUIZ 95
1. Sweet shop 2. Reading 3. Frobscottle
4. Boggis, Bunce, and Bean 5. Tortoise
6. Pheasants 7. Willy Wonka 8. Aunt
Spiker 9. Chocolate 10. The BFG
11. Miss Trunchbull 12. Quentin
Blake 13. The Gremlins 14. Yellow
15. Gobblefunk 16. Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory 17. His beard
18. The Grand High Witch 19. Billy
20. A monkey 21. For hunting animals
22. His grandmother 23. They are
squashed by the giant peach 24. She is
Miss Honey’s aunt 25. Look round!
QUIZ 96
1. The Blitz 2. False 3. Kirke 4. Parcels
5. 1950 6. True 7. Turkish Delight 8. Wolf
9. Sword 10. A new sewing machine
11. Edmund 12. The snow starts to melt
13. Turns him to stone 14. Marmalade roll
15. Stone Table 16. Aslan 17. Susan
18. False 19. Cair Paravel 20. White stag
21. Mr. and Mrs. Beaver 22. Half man and
half goat 23. Four 24. It is always winter
and never Christmas 25. White
QUIZ 97
1. 11 2. Scabbers 3. Lion 4. Ollivanders
5. The Mirror of Erised 6. July 31 7. 93 ⁄4
8. A Dementor 9. Gillyweed 10. An otter
11. Vernon and Petunia Dursley 12. Professor
Snape 13. False 14. Moaning Myrtle
15. Sirius Black 16. The Little Hangleton
Graveyard 17. True 18. A reporter for The
Daily Prophet 19. 142 20. Parseltongue

21. Dogs 22. A toad 23. A History
of Magic 24. Crookshanks 25. True
QUIZ 98
1. Orange 2. Blue 3. Pastels 4. Collage
5. Yellow 6. Charcoal 7. Mix it with
their paint 8. A palette 9. Green
10. Printing 11. Stretch it 12. Black
13. False 14. 2H 15. Warm 16. Egg
17. Complementary colors 18. Insects
19. Mosaic 20. Gum arabic
QUIZ 99
1. New Moon 2. Interview with the Vampire
3. No 4. Bram Stoker 5. True 6. Edward
Cullen 7. Whitby 8. Charlaine Harris
9. Vlad III the Impaler 10. Mystic Falls
11. Mountain Lion 12. Garlic bread
13. She is telepathic 14. Wuthering Heights
15. Bottled synthetic blood 16. False
17. Renesmee 18. Anne Rice 19. Dracula
20. False
QUIZ 100
1. Peter Pan 2. Rabbits 3. Baloo
4. A heart 5. Next 6. False 7. Winnie-
the-Pooh 8. Anne of Green Gables
9. Fairy dust 10. Through the Looking-Glass
11. Lilliput 12. Barbecue 13. Edith Nesbit
14. A wolf-dog 15. Neverland 16. Africa
17. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
18. A golden arrow 19. In the Swiss Alps
20. Charles Kingsley 21. The Railway
Children 22. She cuts off and sells her
hair 23. Frances Hodgson Burnett
24. The Banks family 25. Anna Sewell
QUIZ 101
1. False 2. A tent 3. Charles 4. Andy
Warhol 5. Blur 6. Ceramics 7. Marc
Quinn 8. Chicago 9. Shark 10. 1998
11. Che Guevara 12. The Guggenheim
Museum 13. John Lennon 14. Jake and
Dinos 15. Fire 16. True 17. 1984 18. David
Beckham 19. Diamonds 20. Banksy
QUIZ 102
1. The Tortoise and the Hare 2. The Boy
Who Cried Wolf 3. The Crow and the Pitcher
QUIZ 98–105
ANSWERS
4. True 5. The Fox and the Crow 6. The
Bundle of Sticks 7. Never trust someone
who deserts you in need 8. The bear
9. Mercury and the Woodman 10. The
milkmaid 11. Never count your chickens
before they hatch 12. The Dog in the Manger
13. A lion 14. In the Roman arena
15. Its bone 16. The Lioness 17. Sour
18. Sour grapes 19. The Nurse and the
Wolf 20. The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
QUIZ 103
1. True 2. 13 3. Blue 4. 1881
5. El Greco 6. Max Jacob 7. Málaga
8. Young Art 9. Guernica 10. True
11. Georges Braque 12. Fernande Olivier
13. Poetry 14. 40 years 15. Communism
16. Himself 17. 1946–1948 18. False
19. About two years 20. New York
21. The minotaur 22. Barcelona 23. France,
1973 24. Cézanne 25. 9 years old
QUIZ 104
1. Realist 2. De Gas 3. 1834 4. American
5. Absinthe 6. The Bellelli Family
7. The National Guard 8. New Orleans
9. True 10. He was going blind 11. The
Impressionists 12. True 13. Mid-1880s
through 1890s 14. Lamplight 15. Italy
16. Bronze 17. 1917 18. True 19. He
became a recluse 20. Dance 21. New
Orleans 22. Horses 23. True 24. True
25. False
QUIZ 105
1. The Great Gatsby 2. Don Quixote
3. False 4. Frankenstein 5. Wuthering
Heights 6. Moby-Dick 7. Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland 8. Crime and Punishment
9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
10. Scoop 11. Nineteen Eighty-Four
12. Catcher in the Rye 13. Catch-22
14. The New York Trilogy 15. Lord of the
Flies 16. A Bend in the River 17. The Lord
of the Rings 18. Waiting for the Barbarians
19. The Trial 20. Anna Karenina 21. Wolf
Hall 22. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
23. Emma 24. The Color Purple
25. Barsetshire
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 106
1. Vincent van Gogh 2. Tuscany, Italy
3. Salvator Mundi 4. David Hockney
5. Hans Holbein 6. John Constable
7. Edgar Degas 8. Night 9. Le Chat Noir
10. Paul Cézanne 11. Edvard Munch
12. Wassily Kandinsky 13. Marc Chagall
14. Pop art 15. Salvador Dalí 16. L. S.
Lowry 17. Impressionism 18. Michelangelo
19. One 20. Paul Gauguin
QUIZ 107
1. Emily Brontë 2. Wilkie Collins 3. Yuri
and Lara 4. Jamaica 5. 1960 6. False
7. Venice 8. Great Expectations 9. True
10. Little Women 11. 1949 12. He runs
away 13. Charles 14. To Kill a Mockingbird
15. Women in Love 16. False 17. So Big
18. First Impressions 19. Jack 20. 19
21. Frankenstein 22. David Copperfield
23. Marthas 24. Aldous Huxley
25. Middlemarch
QUIZ 108
1. False 2. 1874 3. The Seine,
France 4. Paint the effects of light
5. True 6. Gave the work luminosity
7. Water-lily ponds 8. Auguste Renoir
9. Open-air painting 10. Franco-Prussian
War 11. True 12. Edgar Degas
13. Claude Monet 14. Camille
Pissarro 15. Flags 16. Alfred Sisley
17. Berthe Morisot 18. Avant-garde
19. La Grande Jatte 20. Tahiti
21. The Post-Impressionists 22. Louis
Leroy 23. Toulouse-Lautrec 24. True
25. Landscape
QUIZ 109
1. Lydia 2. In a letter 3. Sanditon
4. Eight 5. Murdered her 6. 1775
7. 27 8. Six 9. Half a dozen 10. True
11. No 12. True 13. A Lady 14. Box
Hill 15. Longbourn 16. Bridget Jones’s
Diary 17. Emma Woodhouse 18. Edmund
Bertram 19. Winchester Cathedral
20. True 21. Charlotte Lucas
22. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood
23. Four 24. Four 25. True
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QUIZ 110
1. James Patterson 2. The ABC Murders
3. An orangutan 4. Cordelia Gray 5. Ruth
Rendell 6. Wilkie Collins 7. Tom Ripley
8. True 9. Professor James Moriarty
10. A wheelchair 11. Stephanie Plum
12. True 13. Jane 14. Stieg Larsson
15. Raymond Chandler 16. Inspector Bucket
17. A Study in Scarlet 18. Kathy Reichs
19. A public defender 20. The Mousetrap
QUIZ 111
1. Helena Ravenclaw 2. His dead sister
Ariana 3. Gobbledegook 4. Someone
who has witnessed death 5. True 6. Winky
7. A ghoul 8. A flute 9. Fawkes
10. Neville Longbottom 11. True
12. Buckbeak 13. Five 14. False 15. Silver
16. Cornish pixies 17. Snowy 18. Female
19. Badger 20. Professor Snape
QUIZ 112
1. Bloomsbury 2. Thomas Harris 3. Anne
Brontë 4. Gandalf 5. True 6. Hamlet
7. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
8. Blade Runner 9. False 10. Audrey
Hepburn 11. 1818 12. A tiger 13. True
14. Jeffery Deaver 15. 42 16. Plants
17. Thirty-Nine 18. Great Expectations
19. Graham Greene 20. Sam Spade
21. Noughts and Crosses 22. J. K. Rowling
23. Robert Galbraith 24. Patrick Ness
25. Gender reassignment
QUIZ 113
1. Captain Abraham Smollet 2. Hannibal
Lecter 3. And in the darkness bind them
4. Ford Anglia 5. Whoopi Goldberg
6. Kaa 7. On a park bench 8. The Reader
9. Alice in Wonderland 10. Veterinarian
for large animals 11. Truman Capote
12. Lord of the Flies 13. 12 14. Don
Corleone 15. To Kill a Mockingbird
16. Schindler’s Ark 17. 7 18. Dr. No
19. Ian Fleming 20. The Louvre
QUIZ 114
1. 1990s 2. Georges Braque 3. The Scream
4. Barbara Hepworth 5. Paint thickly applied

6. Engraving 7. Antony Gormley
8. Graffiti 9. John Everett Millais
10. Andrew Wyeth 11. Mexico 12. Whistler
13. Jeff Koons 14. Surrealism 15. Venice
16. Horses 17. El Greco 18. Sir Joshua
Reynolds 19. 2000 20. True 21. Bernini
22. Milan 23. True 24. The dove
25. Kate Moss
QUIZ 115
1. 1939 2. Captain America 3. True
4. #3 5. False 6. Matt Murdock 7. 1965
8. No 9. False 10. 1980 11. True 12. 1990
13. The Scarlet Spider 14. The Runaways
15. Mark Millar 16. Blue Hulk 17. Phoenix
18. White 19. In a plane crash 20. God
of Thunder
QUIZ 116
1. Edward Hopper 2. His pipe
3. Books and a candlestick 4. Medusa
5. 1508–1512 6. Landscapes and palace life
7. Thomas Gainsborough 8. In his bath
9. Caspar David Friedrich 10. True
11. Red 12. Ovid 13. A horse and a
bull 14. 2 15. The cross points down
16. A skull 17. False 18. 1808 19. True
20. Giotto
QUIZ 117
1. Yorkshire 2. Currer Bell 3. Branwell
4. Two 5. False 6. The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall 7. Six 8. 1850 9. Emily
10. The Professor 11. Elizabeth Gaskell
12. False 13. Shirley 14. Mr. Lockwood
and Nelly Dean 15. Bertha 16. Gondal
17. False 18. Agnes Grey 19. Thornfield
Hall 20. True 21. Blackwoods 22. Brussels
23. Governess 24. India 25. Jane Eyre
and Mr. Rochester
QUIZ 118
1. In a letter 2. Dartmouth 3. Seattle
4. Jacob 5. Leah Clearwater 6. 2 years old
7. Billy Black 8. Maria 9. He kisses her
10. To track and kill her 11. Jacob and
Alice 12. Jasper 13. In the forest 14. Ten
15. True 16. Seth 17. A heart 18. He
eavesdrops on them 19. Bree 20. True
QUIZ 115–122
ANSWERS
QUIZ 119
1. Ebenezer 2. Jacob Marley 3. True
4. Christmas Eve 5. Jacob Marley 6. A
warning 7. 7 years 8. Door knocker
9. One 10. A young Scrooge alone in a
school 11. Glowing torch 12. Whether
Tiny Tim will live 13. Ignorance and Want
14. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
15. A beetling shop 16. His name on a
gravestone 17. A turkey 18. At his
nephew’s house 19. False 20. Emily
Cratchit 21. Belle 22. Tiny Tim
23. A silent phantom 24. One day
25. December 1843
QUIZ 120
1. John and Elizabeth 2. 1859 3. Portsmouth
4. Westminster Abbey 5. Mr. Micawber
6. True 7. True 8. More than 250 9. Boz
10. Ten 11. A Dinner at Poplar Walk
12. Ellen Ternan 13. Our Mutual Friend
14. Once 15. Ravens 16. Hablot Knight
Browne 17. Barnaby Rudge 18. Epilepsy
19. Miss Havisham 20. False
QUIZ 121
1. On the Road 2. Yann Martel 3. Henry
James 4. The Road 5. Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn 6. Paul Theroux
7. Pequod 8. Lost Horizon 9. The Little
Prince 10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
11. Jack London 12. The Shining 13. Truman
Capote 14. False 15. The Aeneid 16. Mark
Twain 17. False 18. Cormac McCarthy
19. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance 20. Heart of Darkness
QUIZ 122
1. The Third Policeman 2. VALIS
3. Naked Lunch 4. Samuel Beckett
5. 1960s and 1970s 6. Catch-22 7. Infinite
Jest 8. White Noise 9. True 10. The
Handmaid’s Tale 11. Grand narratives
12. Breakfast of Champions 13. The New
York Trilogy 14. The Literary Brat Pack
15. Douglas Coupland 16. Austerlitz
17. American Psycho 18. Brion Gysin
19. World War II 20. One Hundred
Years of Solitude
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 123
1. John Dryden 2. 1668 3. True 4. Chile
5. Samuel Rogers 6. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
7. $35,000 8. Philip Larkin 9. Bill
Manhire 10. Saoi 11. True 12. Two
13. False 14. False 15. Ethiopia
16. Hanns Johst 17. Poet of the
Fatherland 18. True 19. Sherry
20. Simon Armitage 21. 10 years
22. Ben Jonson 23. Cecil Day-Lewis
24. John Masefield 25. The Charge
of the Light Brigade
QUIZ 124
1. At the end of the 14th century
2. To visit the relics of St. Thomas
Becket 3. False 4. 30 5. Four 6. Death
7. The Ploughman and the Parson
8. The Prioress 9. The Tabard Inn
10. False 11. The Pardoner 12. The
Summoner 13. The Wife of Bath
14. Phoebus 15. “The Man of Law’s Tale”
and “The Squire’s Tale” 16. The Summoner
17. The Squire 18. False 19. Constance
20. 24 21. Cloth embroidered with flowers
22. True 23. Cambyuskan 24. False
25. “The Miller’s Tale”
QUIZ 125
1. Robert Capa 2. Magnum 3. Paris
4. Cyprus 5. Photogenic drawing
6. Tim Page 7. False 8. David
Bailey 9. Yousuf Karsh 10. John
11. 2012 12. True 13. Denis Healey
14. Picture Post 15. 1936 16. Annie
Leibovitz 17. Princess Margaret
18. Sean 19. Paparazzi 20. Berlin
21. Henri Cartier-Bresson 22. Life in
America 23. Man Ray 24. Portraits
25. False
QUIZ 126
1. Gloucester 2. True 3. Hamlet
4. Sicily 5. Coriolanus 6. Bed 7. Henry
VIII 8. Balthasar 9. False 10. James I
11. Gertrude 12. The Taming of the Shrew
13. Viola 14. 7 15. Smothers her
16. True 17. The Merchant of Venice
18. Three 19. Uranus 20. Denmark
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QUIZ 127
1. The Factory 2. London 3. 1950s
4. Peter Blake 5. Man, Machine and
Motion 6. Campbell’s 7. Independent
Group 8. Tottenham Court Road
9. Richard Hamilton 10. False
11. Museum of Modern Art 12. New York
13. 11 14. Andy Warhol 15. California
16. Mimmo Rotella 17. The Velvet
Underground 18. Comic strips
19. 1963 20. Shot him
QUIZ 128
1. J. M. Barrie 2. Emma Woodhouse
3. 28 years, 2 months, and 19 days
4. Wilkins Micawber 5. Cut 6. A
governess 7. Stonehenge 8. Voltaire
9. False 10. Northanger Abbey 11. Rome
12. Cocaine and morphine 13. Horse
14. Wrote Wuthering Heights 15. True
16. A conduct manual 17. Under Western
Eyes 18. A display of his swordsmanship
19. Polyphonic substitution 20. Sancho
Panza 21. John Steinbeck 22. The
Metamorphosis 23. In Search of
Lost Time 24. Erewhon
25. James Baldwin
QUIZ 129
1. 1934 2. Detective Comics 3. Superman
4. Action Comics 1 5. Detective Comics 27
6. Superman 30 7. True 8. 1952
9. False 10. Brightest Day 11. Alfred
12. Damien Wayne 13. Thomas and Martha
14. Dave Gibbons 15. 1988 16. David
Lloyd 17. Neil Gaiman 18. Batman:
Digital Justice 19. 1993 20. The Joker
QUIZ 130
1. It was considered anti-Stalinist
2. The Grapes of Wrath 3. Because
Tarzan and Jane were living in sin
4. Frankenstein 5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe 6. It was feared
it would cause an uprising 7. Gustave
Flaubert 8. Madame Bovary 9. Green
Eggs and Ham 10. For its alleged portrayal
of Marxism 11. 1559 12. It was about
same-sex penguins having a baby and

considered anti-family and not suitable
for the age group 13. Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland 14. Animals and humans
appeared as equals 15. Spycatcher
16. True 17. True 18. True 19. It was
about sexual love between two women
and considered obscene
20. True
QUIZ 131
1. Mycroft Holmes 2. A wedding
ring 3. Governess 4. False 5. The
Hound of the Baskervilles 6. The Strand
7. A Case of Identity 8. The Sign of
Four 9. 56 10. Irene Adler 11. Three
12. Beekeeping 13. True 14. A knife
15. Young street children 16. Holmes
is presumed dead 17. Reichenbach Falls
18. Fred Porlock 19. The Adventure of
the Empty House 20. The Case-Book
of Sherlock Holmes
QUIZ 132
1. Jean-Auguste Ingres 2. Auguste
Renoir 3. Frida Kahlo 4. Sandro
Botticelli 5. Edouard Manet 6. Jackson
Pollock 7. René Magritte 8. Mark Rothko
9. Mary Cassatt 10. Peter Paul Rubens
11. Grant Wood 12. Salvador Dali
13. Georgia O’Keeffe 14. Francisco
Goya 15. Diego Velázquez 16. Bridget
Riley 17. Sir John Everett Millais
18. William Holman Hunt 19. Tracey
Emin 20. Banksy 21. Rembrandt
22. Jan van Eyck 23. Frederic
Leighton 24. Hieronymus Bosch
25. Auguste Rodin
QUIZ 133
1. Paul Auster 2. Gravity’s Rainbow
3. The Bluest Eye 4. Garp 5. Americana
6. Infinite Jest 7. The Amazing Adventures
of Kavalier & Clay 8. Jonathan Franzen
9. False 10. Chuck Palahniuk 11. True
12. Philip Roth 13. Annie Proulx
14. Michael Cunningham 15. John Updike
16. Charlotte’s Web 17. Alice Sebold
18. Cold Mountain 19. The Secret History
20. Louise Erdrich
QUIZ 131–138
ANSWERS
QUIZ 134
1. Déagol 2. Gimli 3. Prancing 4. Eregion
5. False 6. Eagle 7. Isildur 8. Orodruin
9. Radagast the Brown 10. Andúril, Flame
of the West 11. False 12. Friend 13. Balin
14. A white figure 15. Snowmane 16. A
balrog 17. Brooch 18. Éomer 19. Look
at the lights 20. Ungol
QUIZ 135
1. Six 2. Through the Looking Glass
3. Difficulties with Girls 4. Twenty
Years After 5. The Return of the King
6. Rebecca’s Tale 7. Harry Potter and
the Chamber of Secrets 8. The Amber
Spyglass 9. The Rainbow 10. True
11. The Ghost Brigades 12. Point of
Impact 13. Marathon Man 14. False
15. The High King 16. Explorers on
the Moon 17. Tom Brown at Oxford
18. Knife Edge 19. Life at the Top
20. Porterhouse Blue
QUIZ 136
1. Approx. 4.5 billion years 2. Ural
Mountains 3. Tropical rain forest
4. Uniformitarianism 5. Basalt 6. False
7. False 8. Igneomorphic 9. Radioactivity
10. Sedimentary rocks 11. Cooling molten
rock 12. Metamorphic rock 13. Fossils
14. Amber 15. True 16. The equator
17. False 18. France and Spain
19. Pyramidal peak 20. Galaxies
QUIZ 137
1. Missouri 2. A plunge pool 3. Source
4. Tributaries 5. Amazon 6. Seine 7. True
8. An oxbow lake 9. Flood control
10. True 11. Nile 12. True 13. Ebro
14. Po 15. A floodplain 16. Change
17. Sediment load 18. 20% 19. Flood
20. Angel Falls 21. Amazon 22. Myanmar
23. Ethiopia 24. Murray 25. Titicaca
QUIZ 138
1. Indonesia 2. Extinct 3. False 4. False
5. True 6. Igneous 7. Pompeii 8. 1,830 °F
(1,000 °C) 9. Fertile, mineral-rich soil
10. True 11. False 12. True 13. Fuji
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ANSWERS
14. True 15. Fumarole 16. Volcanic bomb
17. Mars 18. The crater 19. False 20. True
QUIZ 139
1. False 2. An oasis 3. False 4. Camel
5. Carcross 6. Rain 7. Prickly pear
8. Castle 9. Northern China and southern
Mongolia 10. True 11. Night 12. False
13. Argentina 14. Caravan 15. Spines and
thorns 16. Steppes 17. Nomads 18. Large
flat feet 19. Two 20. False 21. Salinization
22. The Sierra Nevada 23. The Outback
24. Remain dormant 25. Succulents
QUIZ 140
1. Rome 2. Egypt 3. New York City
4. Rio de Janeiro 5. Scafell Pike
6. Heathrow 7. Yellowstone 8. Sydney
9. Reykjavík 10. Iceland 11. Kilimanjaro
12. Hokkaido 13. Canada 14. Arizona
15. Hawaii 16. Nile 17. Dhaka 18. Mexico
19. Dominican Republic 20. Haiti
QUIZ 141
1. 650 miles (1,050 km) 2. Fold mountains
3. True 4. 20% 5. False 6. Africa
7. Hawaii 8. Mont Blanc 9. False
10. Everest 11. True 12. Pointed 13. True
14. ¼ in (5 mm) a year 15. Southern Africa
16. Mount McKinley 17. Peruvian Andes
18. Tibetan 19. Mexico 20. Orography
21. The Great Dividing Range 22. Ethiopian
Highlands 23. Europe and Asia
24. Appalachian Mountains 25. Munros
QUIZ 142
1. Switzerland 2. Red and yellow
3. Mediterranean and Atlantic 4. True
5. Germany 6. The Vatican 7. Monaco
8. Iceland 9. Greece 10. The Netherlands
11. Four 12. Øresund Bridge 13. Madrid
14. Rome 15. True 16. Greece 17. Eight
18. False 19. Berlin 20. France and Spain
21. Hungary 22. Estonia 23. Italy
24. Italy 25. Romania
QUIZ 143
1. The Egyptian pyramids and the Sphinx
2. Victoria Falls 3. Suez Canal 4. The Big
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Five 5. The Sahara 6. True 7. Marrakesh
8. Khartoum 9. Mali 10. Ramesses II
11. 2010 12. Ivory Coast 13. Angola
14. The Pharos Lighthouse 15. A northern
African bath-house 16. Madagascar
17. Kwacha 18. Mount Sinai 19. True
20. False
QUIZ 144
1. A city with a population of more
than 10 million 2. Tokyo 3. Bombay
4. Nigeria 5. True 6. 37 7. Shantytowns
8. Three 9. Paris and Moscow 10. Los
Angeles 11. São Paulo 12. Istanbul
13. Islamabad 14. Kolkata 15. 20,000
16. Rome 17. False 18. True 19. Moscow
20. Asia 21. Chicago 22. Three
23. South Korea 24. Shanghai 25. False
QUIZ 145
1. New Year’s Day 2. Martin Luther King Jr.
Day 3. Valentine’s Day 4. Washington’s
Birthday 5. St. Patrick’s Day 6. St. George’s
Day 7. Anzac Day 8. Thanksgiving
9. Indigenous People’s Day 10. Canada
Day 11. Independence Day 12. Bastille
Day 13. La Tomatina 14. Trafalgar Day
15. Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday 16. The
Day of German Unity 17. Halloween
18. Armistice Day or Remembrance
19. Republic Day 20. Christmas Day
QUIZ 146
1. Morocco 2. Lobster 3. Italy 4. Fondue
5. Texas 6. Breakfast 7. True 8. Boerewors
9. Duck 10. Belgium 11. Apple pie
12. France 13. Clay 14. Sausage
15. Dim sum 16. Mexico 17. Fish
and chips 18. Fried rice 19. Paella
20. False; it is made with phyllo pastry
QUIZ 147
1. Everest 2. Nile 3. Siberia 4. Mid-
Atlantic Ridge 5. Russia 6. Vatican City
7. True 8. Venezuela 9. Severn
10. California 11. Chile 12. Antarctic
13. Dead Sea 14. Ojos del Salado
15. Amazon 16. Lambert 17. Greenland
18. Asia 19. La Paz 20. Superior

21. Antarctica 22. Australia 23. Beijing
(Tiananmen Square) 24. Pacific
25. Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
QUIZ 148
1. Sydney 2. Rome 3. China 4. The Arc
de Triomphe 5. Trevi 6. Venice 7. Las
Vegas 8. Pisa 9. Barcelona 10. Taj Mahal
11. Brighton 12. Windsor 13. Mexico
14. San Francisco 15. Dublin 16. Milan
17. Copenhagen 18. Gateway of India
19. Paris 20. Harrods
QUIZ 149
1. Dubai 2. Chicago 3. 1931 4. The
Petronas Towers 5. China Central Television
Headquarters 6. Vietnam 7. 1902 8. Saudi
Arabia 9. 2008 10. The Burj Al Arab
11. The Taipei 101 12. Barcelona 13. The
Gherkin 14. Sweden 15. 2001 16. Macau
17. True 18. One World Trade Center
19. The Bank of China Tower 20. False
QUIZ 150
1. Honduras 2. Alaska 3. 13 4. Portuguese
5. Argentina’s Independence Day 6. Cacti
7. Delaware 8. Bolivia 9. True 10. Alaska
11. Pampas 12. Hydropower 13. Venice,
Italy 14. Galápagos Islands 15. Maine
16. Christopher Columbus, in 1502 17. Lake
Titicaca 18. Hawaii 19. Chile and Ecuador
20. False 21. Grizzly bear 22. July 4,
1776 23. False 24. California
25. Pennsylvania
QUIZ 151
1. Richter 2. San Andreas Fault
3. Steel 4. Ten times stronger 5. Epicenter
6. Focus 7. Seismologists 8. Seismograph
9. Fire 10. Tsunami 11. Japan 12. True
13. Indonesia 14. Mercalli 15. Alaska
16. P 17. At tectonic plate boundaries
18. Chile 19. Aftershock 20. Shockwave
QUIZ 152
1. Colorado 2. Four 3. Plunge pool
4. Yangtze 5. Amazon 6. True 7. Rio
Grande 8. Tributary 9. Confluence
10. Venezuela 11. Yangtze 12. Six
QUIZ 148–156
ANSWERS
13. Caspian 14. Abrasion 15. Mississippi
16. Cautley Spout 17. False 18. The
Itapuã Dam 19. Alluvium 20. Delta
QUIZ 153
1. Nigeria 2. Tokyo 3. Helsinki
4. Dakar 5. Dnieper 6. Budapest
7. Athens 8. Algiers 9. Madagascar
10. Qatar 11. Pyongyang 12. True
13. Madrid 14. Zagreb 15. Montevideo
16. Suriname 17. Falkland Islands
18. Ottawa 19. Bolivia 20. Edinburgh
21. Meeting place 22. Al Fustat
23. Rome 24. Colombia 25. Colombo
QUIZ 154
1. False 2. True 3. Mexico 4. 10,000
years ago 5. 2 billion 6. 37% 7. True
8. True 9. Arable 10. About 200
11. Very slowly 12. Methane 13. Raising
fruits and vegetables for distribution
14. Salinization 15. Chickens
16. Genetically modified 17. True
18. China 19. True 20. Grapes
QUIZ 155
1. 28,251 ft (8,611 m) 2. South Africa
3. Dead Sea 4. Himalayas 5. Cuba
6. Aconcagua 7. Murray and Darling
8. 1987 9. Seven 10. Indonesia
11. It is made of ice 12. Mount Elbrus
13. The Mariana Trench 14. Prehistoric
cave paintings 15. London 16. The
monarch butterfly 17. Sweden and
Denmark 18. Peru 19. 8:00 p.m.
20. Australia 21. Antarctica 22. La
Paz, in Bolivia 23. Peru 24. Death
Valley, California, 134º F (56.7º C)
25. Toxic gases from nearby geysers
can kill very quickly
QUIZ 156
1. China 2. Vatican City 3. 7–8 billion
4. China 5. Doubled 6. 57 7. 10.5 billion
8. 332 million 9. Nauru 10. 1987
11. True 12. Stop growing 13. India
14. False 15. 2100 16. 100 billion
17. Asia 18. India 19. China
20. 1960s
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 157
1. Between 2,100 and 3,000 2. Madagascar
3. 2006 4. More than 140 million 5. Ten
6. French 7. True 8. French and Arabic
9. False 10. English 11. Eritrea and
Ethiopia 12. Portuguese 13. 2002
14. English 15. German 16. Around
15 million 17. Ethiopia 18. More than
500 19. North Africa 20. Setswana
QUIZ 158
1. Indonesia 2. New Zealand 3. Tonga
4. 25 5. Greenland 6. The Persian Gulf
7. Cuba 8. Australia 9. 70,000 10. Japan
11. The Pacific Ocean 12. False 13. One
14. Singapore 15. Kingston 16. True
17. Iceland 18. Madagascar 19. Cyprus
20. New Zealand 21. Grenada
22. French 23. Trinidad and Tobago
24. Timor-Leste 25. Six
QUIZ 159
1. The Grand Canyon 2. Haystack Rock
3. 12 million 4. Oregon 5. Yellowstone
National Park 6. 2,427 ft (740 m) 7. False
8. California 9. Acadia National Park
10. Black Rapids Glacier 11. Utah
12. Wyoming 13. Old Faithful 14. Denali
15. False 16. Lady Luck’s Ladder
17. President Theodore Roosevelt 18. False
19. Arizona and Nevada 20. California
QUIZ 160
1. 1944 2. True 3. The ninth century
4. An army 5. Althingi 6. Thingvellir
7. Greenland 8. Geysir 9. 23 10. Car
11. 320,000 12. Gaelic 13. Literature
14. Whaling 15. The most peaceful country
in the world 16. Coca-Cola 17. The
arctic fox 18. Kópavogur 19. Lutheranism
20. 2008 21. True 22. Icelandic
23. Avalanches 24. Turf 25. Glymur
QUIZ 161
1. Over warm ocean water near the equator
2. 250 mph (400 kmph) 3. Cumulonimbus
4. Thunder 5. Rainbow 6. Lightning
7. A hailstone 8. El Niño 9. 800–1,200
10. Wind speed 11. Waterspout
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12. Saffir-Simpson 13. Dust devils
14. Blizzard 15. False 16. Droughts
17. Smog 18. Just below freezing
19. Avalanche 20. Gale
QUIZ 162
1. Volga 2. False 3. Mauna Kea 4. True
5. China and Nepal 6. True 7. Yangtze
8. Amazon 9. 13 10. New Zealander
11. Lake Eyre 12. False 13. Japan 14. True
15. The Andes 16. Africa 17. None
18. The Andes 19. Limnology 20. Canada
21. Lake Constance 22. True 23. Finger
Lakes 24. Upper course 25. Egypt
QUIZ 163
1. Australia 2. 2,000 miles (3,220 km)
3. Edinburgh of the Seven Seas 4. Al
Azizyah, Libya 5. Oymyakon, Russia
6. True 7. Laos 8. Great white sharks
9. Mariana Trench 10. Angel Falls,
Venezuela 11. Middle East 12. Louisiana
13. Florida 14. The Amazon Rain Forest
15. True 16. The Serengeti Plains
17. Antarctica 18. India 19. Two million
years 20. Australia
QUIZ 164
1. Rocky Mountains 2. Brazil 3. 40000 bce
and 15000 bce 4. 1492 5. Titicaca 6. 35
million years ago 7. True 8. Southern
Thule 9. 31 10. False 11. True 12. New
York City 13. 35 14. Christianity
15. False 16. The Isthmus of Panama
17. Kaffeklubben Island 18. Western
Cordillera 19. One in ten 20. False
21. 13 22. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
23. Nevada 24. Seattle 25. Louisiana
QUIZ 165
1. A tornado 2. 310 mph (500 kmph)
3. A tidal wave 4. An earthquake 5. A
twister 6. False 7. One in 700,000 8. It
was completely destroyed by a hurricane
9. Lightning rod 10. An avalanche
11. A dry slab avalanche 12. Chile
13. 9.5 14. 1,500 15. False 16. Santorini
17. Mount St. Helens 18. Flood protection
for London 19. True 20. Lisbon

QUIZ 166
1. Gulf of California 2. Atoll 3. Limestone
4. Black smokers 5. 3.50% 6. Maelstrom,
Norway 7. 3,300 ft (1,000 m) 8. Dead Sea
9. Sargasso Sea 10. Humboldt Current
11. Zooplankton 12. 660 ft (200 m)
13. The Indian Ocean 14. Bioluminescence
15. Coral reef 16. Giant clam 17. Abyssal
plain 18. All of them 19. True 20. Sea
of Azov
QUIZ 167
1. The Utah-Arizona border 2. Venezuela
3. Caves 4. New Zealand 5. Aurora
australis 6. Red Sea 7. Giant’s Causeway
8. Iceberg 9. Argentina 10. Easter Island
11. Lake Titicaca 12. Narwhal 13. Lake
Eyre 14. Victoria 15. Mississippi
16. 6,000 ft (1,830 m) 17. Norway 18. Mount
Fuji 19. Great Barrier Reef 20. Baobab
QUIZ 168
1. Composite 2. A pyroclastic flow
3. Basalt 4. Hotspot 5. Antarctica
6. Charles F. Richter 7. Ring of Fire
8. Obsidian 9. The volcano’s side
began to bulge 10. Dormant 11. True
12. Washington State 13. Every 90 minutes
14. Pumice 15. True 16. False
17. Atlantis 18. Mount Tambora
19. Kilauea 20. True
QUIZ 169
1. The Everglades 2. Lake Baikal
3. Lake Titicaca 4. Wastwater 5. Lake
Chad 6. Lake Superior 7. 20% 8. False
9. Dead Sea 10. The Sudd 11. Lake
Ontario 12. Lake Erie 13. Lake Huron
14. Lake Kariba 15. The Pantanal
16. The Pripet Marshes 17. Lake Taupo
18. Lake Mead 19. Valdai Hills
20. True 21. True 22. Carbon 23. An
international treaty to protect wetlands
24. True 25. Lake Michigan
QUIZ 170
1. Snout 2. A large chunk of ice breaks off
3. False 4. Panhole 5. Hanging valley
6. 10% 7. About 70% 8. Worms
QUIZ 166–174
ANSWERS
9. Pyramidal peak or horn 10. Lateral
moraines 11. Erratic 12. True
13. Accumulation zone 14. Blue
15. Nunataks 16. Fjord 17. Greenland
18. 420,000 years 19. Lake Vostok
20. True 21. Australia 22. The Southern
Ocean 23. Gravity 24. When a glacier
increases speed 25. Crevasses
QUIZ 171
1. 8 billion 2. False 3. True 4. False
5. True 6. Africa 7. Monaco 8. Greenland
9. Mandarin Chinese 10. True 11. 2007
12. 18.4 million 13. False 14. Population
pyramid 15. Central business district
16. Costa Rica 17. Shantytowns
18. Inuit 19. True 20. Qatar
21. China 22. 7,000 23. No, they
self-identify as indigenous 24. Canada
25. Hindi
QUIZ 172
1. Zimbabwe 2. St. Kilda 3. Tombolo
4. Taiga 5. The Red Sea 6. Ghana
7. The Indies (Asia) 8. Trench 9. Urals
10. Kiribati 11. Africa 12. Japan
13. Sahel 14. East 15. Derbyshire
16. Maldives 17. Beach 18. Niger
19. Ernest Shackleton 20. Death Zone
QUIZ 173
1. Surtsey 2. Mount Etna 3. Magma
4. Basalt 5. Core 6. False 7. Elephants
8. Pele’s hair 9. Black smokers 10. Cure
ailments 11. Iceland 12. The Ring of Fire
13. True 14. True 15. A thick-walled
prison cell 16. The San Andreas Fault
17. San Francisco 18. A transcurrent fault
zone 19. True 20. There was no sanitation
in the place survivors fled to
QUIZ 174
1. 50 2. Hawaii 3. Delaware 4. Hawaii
5. True 6. California 7. Alaska
8. Florida 9. True 10. South Dakota
11. Massachusetts 12. New Jersey
13. Wisconsin 14. Four 15. Wyoming
16. Two 17. Alaska 18. Sacramento
19. New York 20. Louisiana 21. True
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ANSWERS
22. South Dakota 23. Four 24. Mount Lee
25. Alaska
QUIZ 175
1. Swahili 2. Greenland 3. Lingua franca
4. True 5. Greek 6. Italian 7. Nigeria
8. Gujarati 9. The Philippines 10. More
than 800 11. Norwegian 12. New Zealand
13. True 14. English 15. Corsican
16. Patagonia 17. Jack Kerouac
18. Nahuatl 19. Kenya 20. Dutch
QUIZ 176
1. Tunisia 2. Between lands 3. The
Phoenicians 4. Gibraltar 5. Sicily
6. Croatia 7. No 8. Venice 9. True
10. 220,000 11. True 12. True 13. Spain
14. Barcelona 15. 21 16. Greece
17. The Red Sea 18. Our Sea 19. False
20. Greece
QUIZ 177
1. True 2. 65 million years old 3. True
4. Both 5. True 6. Glacier 7. It is liquid
at room temperature 8. Bronze 9. True
10. True 11. True 12. A river 13. False
14. Two-thirds 15. Atacama Desert
16. 3% 17. Erosion 18. Stalactites
19. 39.6 ft (12 m) 20. True
QUIZ 178
1. Building 2. 33,480 ft (10,205 m)
3. 2192 °F (1200 °C) 4. True 5. Lava flow
6. Indonesia 7. More than 1,500 8. Mud
or debris that flows down from a volcano
9. Mauna Loa 10. 79 ce 11. Dormant
12. 3,500 13. Hekla 14. True
15. More than 35,000 16. 10,000
17. Vulcan 18. True 19. Washington
20. The Philippines
QUIZ 179
1. France 2. The Leshan Giant Buddha,
China, is 233 ft (71 m) tall 3. 81 years
4. China 5. Luxembourg 6. Tokyo
7. Zimbabwe 8. Belgium 9. Papua
New Guinea 10. Mecca 11. Lourdes
12. Istanbul 13. Paris 14. Mohammed
15. Kosovo 16. India 17. Jerusalem
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18. Vatican City 19. North Macedonia
20. 50%
QUIZ 180
1. Tephra 2. Montserrat 3. Typhoon
4. Surtsey 5. Whirlpool 6. Hurricane
Katrina 7. Preparing ski runs 8. Tsunami
9. Very gentle 10. Hurricane
11. Stratosphere 12. False 13. Vesuvius
14. Deepest 15. Polders 16. Meteorite
impact on Earth 17. 1964 18. Wegener
19. Earthquake 20. Bangladesh
QUIZ 181
1. At the back 2. A percussion instrument
consisting of a pair of hand drums used in
Indian music 3. True 4. Guitar 5. The
bagpipes 6. True 7. China 8. The bars
are struck with sticks or padded mallets
9. Electronic 10. False. There are two pedals
11. To change the sound 12. Switzerland
13. A type of cymbal. It consists of two
cymbals and a foot pedal mounted on a
metal stand. It is part of a standard drum
kit 14. A viola is larger than a violin
15. A balalaika is a stringed instrument that
originates from Russia. It has a triangular
wooden hollow body, a fretted neck, and
three strings 16. Lyre 17. Four strings
18. False. It’s a woodwind instrument
19. Tuba 20. 12 notes 21. It’s an early type
of trombone. It dates from the Renaissance
period; the late 14th century 22. True
23. Brass instruments 24. Harmonica
25. Harp
QUIZ 182
1. Afropop 2. True 3. Ireland 4. George
Harrison from the Beatles 5. Germany
6. Eucalyptus 7. Reggae music 8. True.
An erhu is a two-stringed instrument that
resembles a violin and is played with a bow
9. True 10. African. The movement of
slaves from Africa to the southern US states
is seen as helping the development of these
different styles of music 11. India 12. Bongo
drums 13. True 14. Hip-hop 15. A
dragon 16. Castanets 17. It’s a woodwind
instrument. Originally from South America,

panpipes consist of cane pipes of different
lengths tied or held together by wax or cord
and closed at the bottom 18. False
19. True 20. The Glastonbury Festival
QUIZ 183
1. Seattle 2. Prince 3. “Sweet Home
Alabama” 4. False 5. Gladys Knight and
the Pips 6. Nashville 7. Minnesota
8. “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”
9. Train 10. Motown 11. Georgia
12. The blues and jazz 13. Soul, funk, and
rhythm and blues music that was produced
in Philadelphia 14. Candlestick Park, San
Francisco 15. True 16. Jackson Browne
and Glenn Frey 17. “The 59th Street
Bridge Song” 18. Cleveland, Ohio
19. San Fernando Valley 20. Boston
QUIZ 184
1. John Lennon (and Yoko Ono) 2. Michael
Bublé 3. “White Christmas” 4. “The Twelve
Days of Christmas” 5. “Mistletoe” 6. Meet
Me in St. Louis 7. Mariah Carey 8. “Good
King Wenceslas” 9. Blue (“Blue Christmas”)
10. Gene Autry 11. Rockin’ (“Rockin’
Around the Christmas Tree”) 12. Bruce
Springsteen 13. “Christmas Time Is Here”
14. Celine Dion 15. Noël 16. “Santa Baby”
17. Wham! 18. Frozen 19. True 20. True
QUIZ 185
1. Austria 2. Deep and crisp and even
3. Glory to the Newborn King 4. St. Francis
of Assisi 5. “O Come All Ye Faithful”
6. A lowly cattle shed 7. Christina Rossetti
8. Boughs of holly 9. … to you and your
kin 10. A fir tree 11. One Horse Open
Sleigh 12. The crown 13. Eight maids
a-milking 14. Benjamin Britten
15. “Away in a Manger” 16. Throw
cares away 17. Myrrh 18. “That
glorious song of old” 19. Three ships
20. Do you hear what I hear?
21. Heaven 22. The first Noel… was
to certain poor shepherds 23. “Hark!
The Herald Angels Sing” 24. The Angel
of the Lord came down
25. Bethlehem
QUIZ 183–189
ANSWERS
QUIZ 186
1. Piano 2. Five lines 3. A flute in The
Magic Flute 4. The piano and the double
bass 5. Violins 6. Baroque 7. Pluck a
string 8. George Gershwin 9. The oboe
10. Antonio Vivaldi 11. Venus 12. 4 minutes
33 seconds 13. The pitch of the notes
14. Violin 15. Six strings 16. Piano
17. Countertenor 18. Violin 19. 8 years
of age 20. Four quarter notes
QUIZ 187
1. “Israelites” by Desmond Dekker and
the Aces 2. Vincent Ford 3. The
Melodians 4. Junior Murvin 5. Jimmy
Cliff 6. Melodica 7. “Simmer Down”
8. Dandy Livingstone 9. Desmond
Dekker and the Aces 10. King Tubby
11. Fred “Toots” Hibbert 12. “Do the
Reggay” 13. Black Uhuru 14. Winston
Rodney 15. Lee Scratch Perry 16. In
Croydon, England, in 2006 17. Gregory
Isaacs 18. U-Roy 19. The Originator
20. Nesta 21. The word is derived from
“rege-rege,” a Jamaican phrase meaning
rags or ragged clothing. It is used to
denote a raggedy style of music 22. Blondie
23. Moses Davis 24. Gregory Isaacs
25. Ziggy is Bob Marley’s eldest son.
He is a songwriter and musician
QUIZ 188
1. Kajagoogoo 2. Billy Joel
3. Guns N’ Roses 4. Madonna
5. The Cure 6. Tintin 7. The Boss
8. True 9. The Cult 10. Duran Duran
11. Neil Tennant 12. Yes 13. David
Lee Roth 14. Tina Turner 15. Kenny
Loggins 16. Frankie Goes to Hollywood
17. Milli Vanilli 18. Europe 19. Twisted
Sister 20. Men at Work 21. “Our
House” 22. Dire Straits 23. Dolly
Parton 24. Prince in “When Doves
Cry” 25. New Kids on the Block
QUIZ 189
1. Debbie Harry 2. Three 6 Mafia
3. Public Enemy 4. Sugarhill Gang
5. Untouchable Force Organization
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ANSWERS
6. OutKast 7. G-Unit 8. Dr. Dre
9. Flavor Flav 10. Bully 11. Snoop Dogg
12. Reasonable Doubt 13. True
Boys 14. Public Enemy and Anthrax
15. Eric Lynn Wright 16. Childish
Gambino 17. True 18. Lil’ Kim
19. Cypress Hill 20. The Beastie Boys
QUIZ 190
1. Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
2. My Fair Lady 3. West Side Story
4. Footloose 5. Cyndi Lauper 6. Miss
Saigon 7. Madame Butterfly 8. Calamity
Jane 9. Fame 10. Into the Woods
11. Wicked 12. Guys and Dolls 13. South
Pacific 14. The Lion King 15. Hair
16. Cabaret 17. The Sound of Music
18. Grease 19. Aquarius 20. Cats
21. Les Miserables 22. Chicago
23. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
24. Sweeney Todd 25. True
QUIZ 191
1. Christina Aguilera 2. Meg White
3. 2001 4. Damon Albarn 5. Fleet Foxes
6. Destiny’s Child 7. 2005 8. Barbados
9. True 10. Amy Winehouse 11. Glasgow
12. Arctic Monkeys 13. True 14. Black
Eyed Peas 15. True 16. 2009 17. Lady
Gaga 18. Gwen Stefani 19. Radiohead
20. Kid Rock
QUIZ 192
1. Black Sabbath 2. Flower Fairies 3. True
4. Anvil 5. Steven Adler 6. False. Seattle
is considered to be its original home
7. Motörhead 8. 1980s 9. Rob Halford,
lead singer of the band Judas Priest
10. Lars Ulrich of Metallica 11. Appetite
for Destruction by Guns N’ Roses 12. John
13. Ronnie James Dio 14. AC/DC
15. Motörhead 16. False 17. Head
18. KISS 19. “Born to Be Wild” by
Steppenwolf 20. His arm
QUIZ 193
1. Buddy Holly 2. Ritchie Valens 3. Little
Richard 4. Mike Love 5. Gene Vincent
6. Ricky Nelson 7. Jackie Wilson 8. They
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were killed in a plane crash, along with Buddy
Holly 9. “Summertime Blues” 10. “Splish
Splash” 11. 1958 12. “Blue Suede Shoes”
13. The Surfaris 14. True 15. 1977
16. Jerry Lee Lewis 17. “Heartbreak
Hotel” 18. False 19. Texas 20. Bill Haley
and the Comets
QUIZ 194
1. James Blunt 2. Lady Gaga 3. Jay-Z
4. Rage against the Machine 5. Michael
Jackson 6. The cast of TV series Glee
7. “I Gotta Feeling” 8. Leona Lewis
9. Take That 10. Hear’Say 11. Alicia
Keys 12. Justin Timberlake 13. Ireland
14. Glee 15. Arctic Monkeys 16. “Crazy
in Love” 17. Britney Spears 18. True
19. Rihanna 20. American Idol
QUIZ 195
1. Abba 2. The Wailers 3. Vivaldi
4. José Carreras 5. The Rat Pack
6. True 7. Stefani Germanotta 8. Amadeus
9. Ballet 10. Garbage 11. False. They are
from Germany 12. Guitar 13. Wagner
14. False 15. Jazz 16. The Pussycat
Dolls 17. 2007 18. Robert Plant 19. Bing
Crosby 20. “Massachusetts” 21. Georges
Bizet 22. Pretenders 23. Craig David
24. Kylie Minogue 25. Philadelphia
QUIZ 196
1. Germany 2. Unrequited love 3. 1791
4. True 5. Johannes Brahms 6. 47 strings
7. False 8. Law 9. Intervals 10. One
11. Poor vision 12. London Symphonies
13. Jazz 14. The English Civil War
15. An Exposition 16. 1877 17. The
opening 18. False. It means moderately fast
19. Baroque, 17th century 20. Guitar
QUIZ 197
1. Berry Gordy 2. Marvin Gaye
3. The Matadors 4. 110 5. 11 6. True
7. The Jackson 5 8. Ten 9. The Supremes
10. The Pips 11. What’s Going On
12. 1972 13. So it could branch out into
motion pictures 14. “Machine Gun”
15. Lionel Ritchie 16. Norman Whitfield

17. True 18. He rejected it 19. 1988
20. More than $61 million 21. Detroit
22. “Please, Mr. Postman” by the
Marvelettes 23. Stevie Wonder
24. The Miracles 25. The Supremes
QUIZ 198
1. Bob Dylan 2. Joni Mitchell 3. True
4. Peter, Paul, and Mary 5. Louisiana
6. Pete Seeger 7. A Dobro. This is an
acoustic guitar with a metal resonator
built into it, which resembles a car hubcap
8. At least 36 strings 9. The sitar
10. Liege and Lief 11. 1965 12. Woody
Guthrie 13. The Byrds 14. True 15. He
played an electric guitar 16. Simon &
Garfunkel 17. Neil Young 18. “The
Sloop John B” 19. He was a poet
20. Joni Mitchell
QUIZ 199
1. Yellow 2. “Purple Rain” 3. Blue
4. Black 5. White Album 6. “Brown
Sugar” 7. Gold 8. “Green Onions”
9. Red 10. The Psychedelic Furs
11. Scarlet 12. “Blue Bayou” 13. Prince
14. True 15. “Rose Colored Glasses”
16. The Grateful Dead 17. Blue
18. “Blue, Red, and Grey” 19. “Brown
Eyed Girl” 20. Silver 21. Yellow
22. Green 23. Red 24. Johnny Cash
25. “Behind These Hazel Eyes”
QUIZ 200
1. Aida 2. Luciano Pavarotti with
“Nessun Dorma” 3. “Ave Maria”
4. La Boheme 5. Georges Bizet
6. La Traviata, which is based on the
novel The Lady with the Camellias
by Dumas, commonly known as Camille
7. Tosca 8. Rossini 9. Mozart
10. Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and Billy Budd 11. Der
Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss
12. Carmen 13. Minstrels 14. Rigoletto
15. Madame Butterfly 16. Orfeo and
Euridice 17. Beethoven: Fidelio
18. The Flying Dutchman 19. True
20. Salome by Richard Strauss
QUIZ 198–204
ANSWERS
QUIZ 201
1. Taylor Hawkins 2. True 3. Lyricist
4. 1988 5. Eric Clapton 6. Phil Collins
7. Thomas & Friends 8. Kenney Jones
9. She was pregnant 10. Phil Rudd 11. Paul
McCartney 12. Nicko McBrain 13. True
14. Def Leppard 15. Mike Joyce 16. 32
17. Colin Flooks 18. Joey Kramer
19. False 20. 1949
QUIZ 202
1. Poland 2. Gustav Holst 3. Rimsky-
Korsakov 4. True 5. Vaughan Williams
6. Animals 7. Mozart 8. False. He
wrote “Music for Royal Fireworks”
9. Handel’s Messiah 10. Franz Liszt
11. Franz Schubert, Symphony No. 8
12. Satie 13. Vivaldi 14. Antonio Vivaldi
15. Ballet 16. Aaron Copland 17. Purcell
18. Madame Butterfly 19. Edward Elgar
20. True 21. Joseph Haydn, Symphony
No. 45, Farewell 22. Clara Schumann
23. True 24. Aleksandr Borodin
25. Gustav Mahler
QUIZ 203
1. 1962 2. “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
3. The Stolling Bones 4. At a train station
5. Eight 6. Marlon Brando 7. 1972
8. Drummer Charlie Watts 9. “You Can’t
Always Get What You Want” 10. 1969
11. Andy Warhol 12. Michael Philip Jagger
13. “Come On” 14. John Lennon and
Paul McCartney of the Beatles 15. Faces
16. John Pasche 17. False 18. 19
19. Angelina Jolie 20. France
QUIZ 204
1. Little Richard 2. Bill Haley & the
Comets 3. “That’s Amore” 4. 1955
5. Brenda Lee 6. Aaron 7. B. Goode
8. False 9. The Everly Brothers 10. Jerry
Lee Lewis 11. “Cry Me a River”
12. “Tutti Frutti” 13. True 14. 1958
15. Alma Cogan 16. Fats Domino
17. True 18. Gene Vincent 19. Fool
20. Buddy Holly & the Crickets
21. Rosemary Clooney 22. Frankie
Lane 23. White suede shoes
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ANSWERS
24. Chuck Berry 25. Lita Roza
with “How Much Is That Doggie in
the Window?”
QUIZ 205
1. Johnny Allen 2. True 3. 11
4. Band of Gypsies 5. Jimmy James
and the Blue Flames 6. Are You
Experienced 7. First Rays of the New
Sun 8. Little Richard 9. “Hey Joe”
10. New York 11. Naked women
12. True 13. “All along the Watchtower”
14. 101st Airborne 15. Billy Cox
16. True 17. True 18. 1967 19. None
20. George Frideric Handel
QUIZ 206
1. A-ha 2. Menudo 3. New Edition
4. New Kids on the Block 5. True 6. Take
That 7. East 17 8. “Blame It on the Boogie”
9. Brother Beyond 10. Boyz II Men
11. JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake
12. Jackson 5 13. False 14. Boyz II
Men 15. Bros 16. Hunting High and
Low 17. New Edition 18. New Kids
on the Block 19. Menudo 20. True
QUIZ 207
1. “Gangnam Style”—Psy 2. “Diamonds”
3. Carly Rae Jepsen 4. Gabrielle Aplin
5. Bjork 6. In an indie record 7. Better.
Luck. Next. Life. 8. Skyfall 9. Hans
Werner Henze 10. Emeli Sandé
11. “Love” 12. “Little Things”—One
Direction 13. Glastonbury 14. Flo Rida
15. Gotye 16. King Kong 17. Bandstand
Marathon 18. Madonna 19. Dr. Dre
20. Brian May
QUIZ 208
1. Sub Pop 2. Mark Arm 3. Seattle
4. A flannel shirt 5. The Pixies
6. False 7. Babes in Toyland 8. Mark
Lanegan 9. Alice in Chains 10. Nevermind
11. Soundgarden 12. Temple of the Dog
13. Hole 14. Singles 15. Soundgarden
16. John Bigley 17. True 18. More
than 75 million 19. Matt Cameron
20. Dave Grohl
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QUIZ 209
1. Abbey Road 2. Ginger Spice
3. Graduation 4. Dizzee Rascal
5. “… just fantasy?” 6. buying
7. “Yesterday” by the Beatles 8. Jimi
Hendrix 9. Bob Dylan 10. “… could
write a bad romance” 11. Coldplay
12. Ray Charles 13. Marvin Gaye
14. False 15. Clair de Lune
16. Mozart 17. New York, New York
18. Louis Armstrong 19. Oliver!
20. Evita
QUIZ 210
1. Mid-1970s 2. Committed to a mental
institution 3. An eagle 4. True 5. Sniffin’
Glue 6. Patti Smith 7. The 101’ers
8. Generation X 9. True 10. David
Johansen 11. Winterland, San Francisco
12. Sid Vicious 13. The Damned
14. False 15. Jamie Reid 16. 1976
17. Green Day 18. Joan Jett 19. Siouxsie
Sioux 20. Johnny Thunders 21. The
Damned 22. Give Me Convenience or Give
Me Death 23. Give ’Em Enough Rope
24. Pet Sematary 25. Public Image Ltd.
QUIZ 211
1. Australia 2. False 3. The wind
4. True 5. Sitar 6. Cymbalom 7. Kazoo
8. 1919 9. “Good Vibrations” 10. The Great
Stalacpipe Organ 11. Marimba 12. Gravikord
13. Glass armonica 14. Fiddle 15. Bazantar
16. 1997 17. Myanmar 18. True 19. True
20. All of them
QUIZ 212
1. Whammy 2. Jimi Hendrix 3. False.
The second string is the B string 4. 5 notes
5. Green Day 6. True. All of B. B. King’s
guitars were named “Lucille” 7. The
guitarist fits a metal or glass tube, or
“slide,” on one of the fingers. The slide is
moved across the strings as they are plucked
8. Luthiers 9. Gibson 10. True 11. Chuck
Berry 12. A capo placed across the
fretboard changes the key of a song so that it
can be played at a higher pitch 13. Ribs
14. The Jam 15. Broken chord 16. False

17. The “Broadcaster” 18. Six
19. True 20. True 21. Fender
Stratocaster 22. EADGBE 23. Pickups
24. Les Paul 25. Bill Wyman formerly
with the Rolling Stones
QUIZ 213
1. Turandot 2. Proserpina 3. Dvorák
4. Opera buffa 5. Johann Strauss 6. Frau
Luna 7. Henry Purcell 8. The Marriage of
Figaro 9. True 10. Orfeo ed Euridice
11. Pinkerton 12. South Carolina 13. Tale
of Tsar Saltan 14. Philip Glass 15. Maria
Callas 16. Coffee—it’s also known as the
Coffee Cantata 17. Luigi Marchesi
18. Dame Nellie Melba 19. 1973 20. False
QUIZ 214
1. Pete Best 2. John Lennon 3. He lay on
his back in the studio 4. Rory Storm and
the Hurricanes 5. It’s a thousand pages,
give or take a few 6. “Love Me Do” 7. Brian
Epstein 8. John Lennon 9. False 10. “I
Saw Her Standing There” 11. “Bad Finger
Boogie” 12. Please Please Me 13. Julian
Lennon 14. False 15. George Harrison
16. True 17. Paul McCartney 18. “Free
as a Bird” 19. True 20. Let It Be
21. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
Band 22. “Norwegian Wood” 23. Ono,
to show his “oneness” after marrying
Yoko Ono in 1969 24. “Yesterday”
25. Stuart Sutcliffe
QUIZ 215
1. A brilliant politician and one of
the Founding Fathers of the United States
2. West Side Story 3. Anna Leonowens,
who was governess to the children of the
king of Siam in the 1860s 4. Spamalot
5. Gene Kelly 6. False 7. The Blues
Brothers 8. Bollywood 9. New York
10. Oliver! 11. Richard O’Brien
12. P. T. Barnum 13. Berlin 14. Fanny
Brice 15. Annie Get Your Gun
16. The Comedy of Errors 17. Lee
Marvin 18. False 19. Carousel
20. Made in Dagenham 21. Willy
Russell 22. Fiddler on the Roof
QUIZ 213–218
ANSWERS
23. Starlight Express 24. Michael
Crawford 25. Priscilla, Queen of
the Desert
QUIZ 216
1. The Beach Boys 2. Tony Iommi
3. No. 4 4. Aerosmith 5. Australia
6. Sammy Hagar 7. “Slaughter” 8. Kiss
9. Eric Clapton 10. Cream 11. The Rolling
Stones 12. David Gilmour 13. False
14. Derek and the Dominoes 15. Whitesnake
16. Tommy 17. Donington Park 18. Led
Zeppelin 19. “Whisky in the Jar”
20. Vincent Damon Furnier
QUIZ 217
1. “I Want to Hold Your Hand” by
the Beatles 2. Itchycoo Park 3. Donovan
4. Drums 5. The Experience 6. The
Rolling Stones 7. Joni Mitchell 8. True
9. The Animals 10. Freddie 11. True
12. False 13. Steppenwolf 14. 1968
15. The Grateful Dead 16. Lou Reed
17. Procol Harum 18. The Monkees
19. Buffalo Springfield 20. John
Entwistle 21. Ken Dodd with “Tears”
22. The Dakotas 23. “Apache”
24. MacArthur Park 25. Cliff
Bennett and the Rebel Rousers
QUIZ 218
1. Romantic (c.1830–1900)
2. Sir Malcolm Sargent 3. He was
inspired when his cat walked across the
keyboard 4. Carthage 5. At a walking
pace 6. True 7. 47 8. Violin 9. 60 years
of age 10. Venice 11. Teacups on a
string 12. A chicken 13. Mozart
14. Mendelssohn 15. Fugues
16. The volume can be controlled
17. Viennese waltz 18. Tchaikovsky
19. Mozart 20. India 21. The audience
rioted because of the unconventional
music 22. He sent hair from his dog
to fans instead of his own 23. Singing
without musical accompaniment
24. A new piece of music based on
the original theme of the piece
25. Sir Henry Wood
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 219
1. True 2. Duke Ellington 3. “(Everything
I Do) I Do It for You” 4. Jason 5. “Red,
Red Wine” 6. Frank Sinatra 7. Rihanna
8. Men at Work 9. Michael Jackson 10. True
11. ABBA 12. The Spice Girls 13. The Police
14. “Always” 15. Journey 16. True
17. A. R. Rahman 18. “She Loves You”
19. It has no name 20. Madonna
QUIZ 220
1. “Mull of Kintyre” by Wings 2. Lulu
3. Johnny Rotten 4. Hot Chocolate
5. Saturday Night Fever 6. Paul Rodgers
7. Legal 8. KISS 9. True 10. Benjamin
Orr 11. The Who 12. “Immigrant Song”
13. Three weeks 14. Blondie 15. The New
York Dolls 16. Bootsy Collins 17. True
18. True 19. AC/DC 20. 1979
QUIZ 221
1. 1984 2. 1991 3. 1963 4. 1977 5. 1982
6. 1987 7. 1965 8. 1968 9. 1977
10. 1978 11. False 12. 1959 13. 1975
14. 1983 15. 1976 16. 1981 17. 2015
18. 1967 19. 1953 20. 2011
QUIZ 222
1. The bridge 2. Japan 3. Colombia
4. Broadcaster 5. John Williams 6. Bo
Diddley 7. Gibson EDS-1275 8. Andrés
Segovia 9. ’59 Les Paul Sunburst 10. Soul
Power 11. Eric Clapton 12. Metal 13. Seven
14. Blues 15. Andy Summers 16. False
17. Carter picking 18. Saul Hudson
19. 19 20. Reduce background noise
QUIZ 223
1. Four 2. Around 100 3. The oboe
4. The English horn 5. The strings
6. The concertmaster 7. The woodwind
section 8. The violas 9. Smaller 10. The
percussion section 11. The principal trumpet
12. False 13. Egyptian 14. Marin Alsop
15. Keyboard—it looks similar to an
upright piano 16. The Hallé 17. True
18. Nine 19. A heckelphone. It is
similar to an oboe but is pitched an
octave lower 20. A viola
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QUIZ 224
1. Alligator skin 2. Jazz grip 3. A Djembe
4. Splash 5. Bongos 6. The drum kick
pedal 7. True 8. Animal 9. Gene Krupa
10. True 11. The cymbals 12. False
13. Louie Bellson 14. Metallica 15. False
16. Yes, drum brushes, sometimes called
brooms, are used for softer playing 17. Keith
Moon 18. Ireland 19. A ride cymbal
20. China
QUIZ 225
1. Guns N’ Roses 2. Sub Pop 3. R.E.M.
4. Lenny Kravitz 5. Public Enemy
6. Björk 7. Phish 8. Primus 9. Oasis
and Blur 10. Mel C (Melanie Chisholm)
11. Dave Grohl 12. Hansen 13. Check
Your Head 14. Faith No More 15. Hole
16. Piano 17. Badmotorfinger 18. True
19. Mark Lanegan 20. Bob Rock
21. “… Baby One More Time” 22. Eddie
Vedder 23. Baz Luhrmann 24. Torn
25. The Verve
QUIZ 226
1. Scorpion 2. True 3. False 4. Smelling
and touching 5. Ladybird 6. Ant 7. Shrimp
8. Chewed-up wood 9. Termite 10. 40
11. Flies 12. Spring 13. Sucks blood
14. Lepidoptera 15. Drone 16. 2 years
17. By rubbing its wings together 18. Elytra
19. Singing 20. Bees can only sting once
QUIZ 227
1. Tortoises 2. Sea urchins 3. A cow
4. Howler monkey 5. Skunk 6. Dolphin
7. Four legs 8. To cool off 9. True
10. Marsupials 11. Keeping cool 12. Scruff
of the neck 13. About a week 14. Bat
15. True 16. Tamarin monkey 17. Japan
18. 200 million years ago 19. South America
20. False 21. It stops blood clotting
22. About a week 23. Old scales 24. They’re
trying to cool off 25. Snails or cone shells
QUIZ 228
1. They smash them on a stone 2. Game
birds 3. Cygnet 4. Undigested food
5. Pigeon 6. They are excellent mimics

7. Clutch 8. On their feet 9. Peregrine
falcon 10. The European robin 11. Southern
12. Raven 13. Brood 14. At the tip of its
beak 15. Australia 16. They impale their
prey on thorns 17. They remove the stinger
first 18. Plunge diving from the air
19. Mud 20. In clifftop burrows
QUIZ 229
1. Sloth 2. Octopus 3. More than 400
4. All of them 5. It eats plant-eating pests
6. Its eyes 7. Cry 8. They pee on their legs
9. 70 mph (112 kmph) 10. One that is active
at night 11. 17¾ in (45 cm) 12. True
13. True 14. False 15. The blue whale
16. A water boatman 17. Roar 18. False
19. A semiaquatic egg-laying mammal
20. The spitting cobra 21. The skin
22. The snow leopard 23. The Komodo
dragon 24. The saltwater crocodile
25. Chameleon
QUIZ 230
1. Cartilage 2. To deter predators 3. False
4. About 200 5. Horse 6. Leopards
7. They cannot jump 8. Cricket 9. Geese
10. Limb 11. Cockroach 12. Humpback
whale barnacle 13. Pigeon 14. Two
15. True 16. Sea urchin 17. Lack of
food 18. Kangaroo 19. Cheetah
20. Flower color
QUIZ 231
1. Poison hemlock 2. They help the
fronds float 3. Fronds 4. By the wind
5. Photosynthesis 6. Common poppy
7. Leaves that drop in the autumn
8. Chlorophyll 9. The plants poison cattle
10. To help them float 11. Less than a
second 12. Tulips 13. White or pale yellow
14. Nettle stings 15. Thatching 16. The
stem 17. Water 18. Bamboo 19. A hip
20. The fruit 21. Aster 22. True
23. Nebuchadnezzar II 24. Cucumbers
25. Rosaceae
QUIZ 232
1. More than half 2. True 3. The Amazon
Rain Forest 4. Howler monkey 5. Blue
QUIZ 229–236
ANSWERS
morpho butterfly 6. 175 7. Jaguar 8. True
9. Leaf-cutter ant 10. Civets 11. Fly
backward 12. True 13. True 14. Uganda,
Rwanda, and Democratic Republic of the
Congo 15. Sloth 16. Once a week
17. Costa Rica 18. The Jungle Book
19. Plants 20. Less than 6%
QUIZ 233
1. Vinegar 2. Taipan 3. Saltwater
crocodile 4. Blue-ringed octopus
5. Echidna 6. True 7. The stonefish
8. The redback spider 9. The great white
shark 10. Duck-billed platypus 11. The
funnel-web spider 12. False 13. The
marbled scorpion 14. False 15. Dingo
16. The cane toad 17. False 18. False
(15 minutes) 19. 45% 20. True
QUIZ 234
1. 22 months 2. Beetle 3. 8,000 lb (3,600 kg)
4. True 5. Breaststroke 6. Decorator crab
7. 20 8. Through its mouth 9. All of them
10. Doze standing up 11. By vomiting fish
oil 12. True 13. Blue whale 14. False
15. To see whether it can fit through an
opening 16. Up to 300% 17. True 18. More
than 3,000 19. Eucalyptus leaves 20. True
21. Tarsier 22. It’s a fish that leaves the
water 23. Inside their father’s pouch
24. It lives in total darkness 25. Barnacles
QUIZ 235
1. On their legs 2. 400 million years
3. Abdomen, thorax, head 4. Several days
later 5. True 6. About 1.5 million 7. False
8. Black widow 9. Metamorphosis
10. False 11. Chitin 12. Open spaces
13. 85% 14. True 15. 48,000
16. True 17. 850 18. True 19. Spider
20. Entomology 21. Moths and
flies 22. True 23. True 24. Shed
their external skeleton 25. Egg,
larva, pupa, and adult
QUIZ 236
1. Mosquito 2. Arizona bark scorpion
3. Jellyfish 4. True 5. Hippopotamus
6. Deathstalker scorpion
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ANSWERS
7. It has special glands that produce poison
8. Sleeping sickness 9. It spreads diseases
such as rabies 10. A piranha 11. Bullet ant
12. True 13. True 14. A stingray 15. The
golden poison frog 16. 20 17. True
18. False 19. A pufferfish 20. True
QUIZ 237
1. Gobi 2. Tree 3. Four 4. Saltation
5. Gold and precious stones 6. True
7. Fog 8. Atlas 9. Paraguay
10. Orangutan 11. Southwest US and
northwest Mexico 12. Okavango Delta
13. Spain 14. Buttress roots 15. True
16. Scrubland 17. William the Conqueror
18. Willow 19. Charcoal 20. Watching
autumn leaves change
QUIZ 238
1. Dolphins 2. Blue whale 3. A long
tooth 4. It is very strong 5. Too
high-pitched to hear 6. 200 mph (320 kmph)
7. Bioluminescence 8. A submarine
9. A dragonfly 10. An aerofoil 11. Echo
location 12. Stuns its prey with a shock
wave 13. The spermaceti organ 14. Its
legs act like springs 15. Electric eel
16. A spider eating an old web
17. Symbiosis 18. Yeast 19. Beaver
20. Venus flytrap
QUIZ 239
1. A lemur 2. A pack 3. A pride
4. A squirrel 5. A warren 6. About
5 minutes 7. As a parachute 8. Curls
into a ball 9. Fat 10. Help break down
food 11. In trees 12. Incisors
13. Jaguar 14. Orangutan 15. Stripes
16. The Americas 17. Marsupials
18. The intestine 19. The pygmy
chimpanzee 20. True
QUIZ 240
1. Fangtooth 2. Vampire squid
3. True 4. Spookfish 5. Anglerfish
6. True 7. Gulper eel 8. They are being
over-fished 9. To see what is happening
above it 10. Up to 1,300 ft (400 m)
11. Black dragonfish 12. True
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13. Lanternfish 14. True 15. 100 times
16. False 17. It takes cookie-shaped bites
out of animals 18. True 19. Through
smell and changes in water pressure
20. Organic matter sinking from
higher levels 21. It switches from
female to male 22. All-around
vision 23. To deter an attacker
24. True 25. The temperature
of the water
QUIZ 241
1. Clean air 2. Chile 3. In capsules
underneath the fronds 4. Fiddleheads
5. A cactus 6. Lack of sunshine
7. Rafflesia 8. In coastal waters
9. By splashing raindrops 10. Only
female trees produce berries
11. 1,000–2,000 years 12. 40 in (100 cm)
13. Yellow 14. Sphagnum moss
15. 400 million years ago 16. South
Africa 17. Red tides 18. White
19. The Scots pine 20. Over 4,500
QUIZ 242
1. China 2. 200 years 3. True 4. False
5. They have broken up 6. False
7. Light 8. 51% 9. 1997 10. False
11. It reflects sunlight back to space
12. Drilling into the ground to get oil
or natural gas 13. True 14. About 15%
15. CO2 from the life cycle of a product
16. Population increase 17. 20%
18. El Niño 19. False 20. IPCC
21. False 22. More rain and higher
humidity 23. 90% 24. True
25. True
QUIZ 243
1. By producing spores
2. The white truffle 3. Yellow
4. Apricots 5. Mildew 6. Mycology
7. Hyphae 8. Yeast 9. Flies
10. Carbon dioxide 11. Birch
12. An alga 13. The leafcutter ant
14. True 15. Athlete’s foot
16. Antibiotic 17. Moldy bread
18. Cottage cheese 19. Chitin
20. Fly agaric

QUIZ 244
1. Funnel web 2. True 3. True
4. Around 1,000,000 5. Wood frog
6. Mole 7. Calves 8. Bee hummingbird
9. 30 mph (50 kmph) 10. Toucans
11. Mako 12. Pretend to be dead
13. Dolphins and bats 14. 18 in (46 cm)
15. Pufferfish 16. To open pine cones
17. Seahorse 18. Octopus 19. Moth
20. They live only on whales 21. Saliva
22. Woodlice 23. Their shape makes
them roll in circles 24. The emperor
penguin 25. It can run on water
QUIZ 245
1. The size of a peanut 2. The eagle
owl 3. The sperm whale 4. The lion’s
mane jellyfish 5. A colossal squid
6. The emperor 7. The least weasel
8. The killer whale 9. The Tasmanian
devil 10. The male mandrill 11. The
tiger 12. More than 80 ft (25 m) 13. The
little penguin 14. Rabbit 15. True 16. Up
to 100 ft (30 m) 17. Ten times its body
weight 18. The manta ray 19. The
goliath tarantula 20. 850 times their
body weight 21. Buzzard 22. True
23. Spinosaurus 24. Hummingbird
25. 98.50%
QUIZ 246
1. False 2. True 3. 36,100 ft (11,000 m)
4. 1,650 ft (500 m) 5. White bellbird
6. 15 mph (24 kmph) 7. True 8. Wind
9. Skin flap on the neck 10. Keratin
11. 150 million years 12. Gray catbird
13. True 14. Barn owl 15. Imprinting
16. A swan 17. Their diet of shrimp
18. New Zealand 19. False 20. Nectar
21. Seabird excrement 22. Emperor
penguin 23. Magpie 24. Puffins
25. Pigeons
QUIZ 247
1. Putting their wings over them
2. Feet 3. About 2,000 times
4. Chemoreceptors 5. Movement
and pressure in the water 6. Fennec
fox 7. False 8. True 9. Sheep
QUIZ 244–251
ANSWERS
10. Flat 11. Mantis shrimp
12. Star-nosed mole 13. Penguin
14. Soccer ball 15. Elephant 16. Heat
release from possible prey 17. True
18. Spider 19. Elephant 20. “Taste”
the air 21. 24 22. True 23. Yes
24. Rabbit (17,000) 25. Bat
QUIZ 248
1. About 35.5 in (90 cm) 2. An internal
shell 3. The white whale 4. Herding
and stunning prey 5. The oarfish 6. So
adults don’t attack them 7. 5 days
8. About 200 years 9. They feel it with
their whiskers 10. Up to 93/4 ft (3 m)
11. The southern elephant seal 12. True
13. The humpback whale 14. About 100
million 15. Up to 13 ft (4 m) 16. False
17. Crustaceans 18. A test 19. A sponge
20. On its back
QUIZ 249
1. A clone 2. True 3. False 4. Sperm
and eggs 5. Spawning 6. An axolotl
7. From their scent 8. Its blue feet
9. Birds of paradise 10. Spider
11. Bowerbird 12. Metamorphosis
13. Froglets 14. Fry 15. Keeping them
in its mouth 16. 7–8 years 17. Lekking
18. Males look different from females
19. Die 20. Monogamous
QUIZ 250
1. A brood parasite 2. A wader 3. One
4. With stink fights 5. The Arctic tern
6. The bittern 7. The common kestrel
8. About 3.3 ft (1 m) an hour 9. A lizard
10. Wisent 11. An insect 12. Carnivorous
13. Pinkish red 14. Salamanders
15. Several million 16. The harvest
mouse 17. Wide 18. Up to 750 19. Six
to seven months 20. Woodchucks
21. One day 22. Koala 23. Sharks
24. Tapeworm 25. Outside
their body
QUIZ 251
1. Wedge 2. Gang 3. Toads 4. Pack
5. Bears 6. True 7. Waddle 8. Labour
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ANSWERS
9. Band 10. Goldfinches
11. Buzz 12. Flamingo 13. False
14. Stripe 15. Murmuration 16. Cete
17. Mules 18. Jellyfish 19. Bears
20. True
QUIZ 252
1. Kiwi 2. True 3. Rookery 4. True
5. It has the largest wingspan of any
bird 6. Andean condor 7. Spring
8. Only the male sings 9. Ornithology
10. 10 billion 11. Trumpeter swan
12. True 13. Drake 14. Bar-headed goose
15. Parliament 16. True 17. Bald eagle
18. Papua New Guinea 19. Spider silk
20. False 21. To grind food in the
stomach, for digestion 22. False
23. Salt glands next to their nostrils
24. One 25. Kori bustard
QUIZ 253
1. All of these 2. True 3. Seaweed
4. Hermit 5. All of these 6. True
7. Sea anemone 8. True 9. Brittle star
10. Jellyfish 11. True 12. Volcanic
13. True 14. Limpet 15. True
16. False 17. True 18. Low-tide zone
19. Polyps 20. True 21. Lagoon
22. True 23. Longshore drift
24. Melting sea ice 25. True
QUIZ 254
1. Africa 2. The polar bear
3. 2009 4. The monarch butterfly
5. The bluefin tuna 6. 147 7. True
8. Fewer than 7,000 9. The blue whale
10. Indonesia 11. More than 3,000
12. True 13. Three 14. Asia
15. Malaysia 16. The Arabian
Peninsula 17. The red howler monkey
18. False 19. 67 20. The
mountain gorilla
QUIZ 255
1. Anthers 2. Nectar guides
3. True 4. True 5. Garlic
6. Aloe vera 7. Africa 8. All of
these 9. True 10. More than 2,000
11. Sundew plant 12. Produces flowers
498
13. True blue 14. True 15. The
Americas 16. True 17. Grafting
18. Abscission 19. Deciduous woodland
20. The flower bud
QUIZ 256
1. Haast’s eagle 2. Wild ox 3. Dodo
4. Woolly rhinoceros 5. Greece
6. Saber-toothed tiger 7. True
8. Three times 9. True 10. Penguin
11. Africa 12. Australia 13. A giant
dragonfly 14. The sea 15. True
16. A list of threatened animal species
around the world 17. Tasmanian
tiger 18. Quagga 19. The moa
20. Armadillo
QUIZ 257
1. Clydesdale 2. Destrier
3. Arabian 4. Appaloosa 5. True
6. Przewalski’s horse 7. True
8. Carriages 9. Spanish Riding
School 10. Saddle Horse 11. True
12. True 13. Fjord horse 14. True
15. Tennessee Walking Horse 16. Suffolk
Punch 17. False 18. True 19. Connemara
20. Shetland pony 21. Camargue
22. 40 23. Filly 24. An ungelded
male horse 25. Walk, trot,
canter, gallop
QUIZ 258
1. Poison darts 2. Flour 3. True
4. The leaves 5. Nightshade 6. True
7. Socrates 8. Foxglove 9. False
10. English yew 11. Batman 12. True
13. True 14. Wolfsbane 15. Daffodil
16. False 17. Ricin 18. Oak 19. True
20. Orchids
QUIZ 259
1. Alaska 2. Ecdysis 3. The Queen
Alexandra’s birdwing 4. Spider silk
5. Chrysalis 6. Genetics 7. Mulberry
leaves 8. Potatoes 9. Milkweed
10. Formic acid 11. Beetles
12. It is a snorkel or breathing tube
13. The vibrations attract fish prey
14. Leaves 15. Sponge 16. Jointed feet

17. Butterflies and moths 18. Steel
19. Skippers 20. Queen bee
QUIZ 260
1. A leveret 2. Babakoto 3. A pig
4. A holt 5. A marsupial mammal
6. They spray them with sticky slime
7. Active at dawn and dusk 8. They
have a long snout 9. Coypu 10. Double-
jointed ankles 11. Ermine 12. Five
13. Gnaw 14. Grass 15. Honey badger
16. Horns are permanent 17. It takes
regular dust baths 18. Living under
snow 19. Under ½ oz (11 g) 20. Persian
21. 2 hours 22. About 88 gallons
(400 liters) 23. It aids grip and
makes a scent trail 24. Reindeer
25. An antibacterial sunscreen
QUIZ 261
1. A cod 2. A hyena 3. Herring
4. Rings in the ear bones 5. 71/3 lb (3.3 kg)
6. Bumblebee 7. A cloud 8. A wallaby
9. A lizardlike reptile 10. A tropical
American weevil 11. By secreting
venom from skin pores 12. Halteres
13. Hopping or jumping 14. In water
15. Less than 4/100 in (1 mm) long
16. None, they all eat meat 17. Radula
18. Spiders 19. The hawksbill turtle
20. The leatherback
QUIZ 262
1. 1880s 2. Finches 3. Flying reptiles
4. Pigeons 5. Alfred Russel Wallace
6. Octopus 7. 46 8. Mendel 9. A, C,
G, T 10. Mutation 11. Prehistoric marine
reptiles 12. Great apes 13. Cambrian
14. About 250,000 years ago 15. Convergent
evolution 16. Monitor 17. Mesozoic
18. 1859 19. Hollow bones
20. Gene pool
QUIZ 263
1. Hunter 2. 2,000 3. True
4. Band 5. 200,000 6. Hymenoptera
7. Naked mole rats 8. Queleas 9. Polyps
10. To attract ants toward a leaf
11. Infrasound 12. Waggle dance
QUIZ 260–266
ANSWERS
13. Pod 14. Bubble netting
15. Bonobo chimpanzee 16. Electrical
signals 17. True 18. Pheromones
19. Weaver 20. Matriarchy 21. 50
22. True 23. 2–5 years 24. By eating
royal jelly 25. True
QUIZ 264
1. Barn owl 2. False 3. Sharp
poisonous spines 4. They pretend to
be injured 5. True 6. Rolls into a ball
7. Lion fish 8. The bullet ant 9. White
whales 10. Bury themselves in sediment
11. Pygmy seahorse 12. True 13. True
14. Blood 15. 13 ft (4 m) 16. Funnel-web
spider 17. Mutualism 18. Driver ants
19. Wiggles its pink tongue
20. Change color
QUIZ 265
1. A tom 2. About 20 mph (32 kmph)
3. Up to 80 years in captivity 4. Mauritius
5. A repetitive hoot 6. The tit family
7. A chatter 8. A casque 9. Up to 12 ft
(3.7 m) 10. A duck 11. Australia
12. Swans 13. The greylag goose
14. Aquatic invertebrates 15. Up to
43 mph (70 kmph) 16. On the wing
17. The hoatzin 18. The goldcrest
19. A murder 20. A watch 21. Lamellae
22. Smell 23. Siege 24. Fish
25. True
QUIZ 266
1. Nose and upper lip 2. Crocodile
3. Amphibians 4. True 5. Pollination
6. Sharks 7. Birds 8. Contain an
antifreeze 9. Aphids supply a sugary
solution 10. Some snakes 11. Its
water comes from the plants it eats
12. Giraffe 13. Making a loud sound
14. Buoyancy 15. Fingers and modified
wrist bones 16. Squirting a hot noxious
liquid 17. It stops predators from attacking
it 18. For warmth 19. Arctic fox
20. All-around vision 21. Intraspecifc
competition 22. Protection
23. Mutualism 24. Predation
and mutualism 25. True
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 267
1. About 30,000 2. About 400 3. 150
pecks a minute 4. Between 20 and 40
million 5. False 6. About 1 million
7. More than 10,000 8. 5,000 9. False
10. More than 4,500 11. Ten times
12. Two 13. One 14. Seven 15. Fewer
than 1,000 16. About 400 17. Up to 80
million 18. About 200 million 19. Up
to 2,000 20. The orchid family
QUIZ 268
1. 22 months 2. 1,900 miles (3,000 km)
3. A badger 4. A chinchilla 5. A
hinny 6. A cria 7. A military explorer
8. True 9. Raccoons 10. Round
11. About 1,200 12. The Sumatran
13. South America 14. Those that
burrow 15. Arctic fox 16. False
17. Constant snoring 18. Cuba and
Hispaniola 19. Deer 20. Earth-pig
QUIZ 269
1. Underground 2. A long, thin finger
3. A hover 4. Ferrets 5. In trees
6. Javan 7. Mohair 8. Mr. and Mrs.
9. North America 10. One 11. More than
330 ft (100 m) 12. Patagium 13. Pink
14. Plantigrade 15. Syria 16. Alpaca
17. Jersey cow 18. The stomach contents
19. Ox 20. A camp 21. Hibernation
22. One 23. Quadrupedal 24. Red
25. To control body temperature
QUIZ 270
1. Chapparal 2. 230 ft (70 m)
3. Anaconda 4. Epiphytes 5. Succulent
leaves 6. Climbing plants 7. 50%
8. 50 9. False 10. 150 acres 11. 40%
12. Amazon 13. Insects 14. Transpiration
15. Bromeliad 16. Ten 17. Plants
18. Altitudes above 3,280 ft (1,000 m)
19. 80 20. Cash cropping
QUIZ 271
1. Germany 2. France 3. Brazil
4. Just Fontaine 5. Bobby Moore
6. 1930 7. Rungrado 1st of May Stadium
in Pyongyang, North Korea 8. Jules Rimet
500
9. True 10. United States 11. Azteca
12. Pelé 13. Franz Beckenbauer
14. Moscow 15. Diana Ross, who was
singing during the celebrations
16. True 17. Brazil 18. Four times
19. Twice 20. It was held in Uruguay,
and Uruguay beat Argentina 4–2
21. Japan 22. Two—Brazil in 1994
and Italy in 2006 23. True
24. Germany 25. Scotland
QUIZ 272
1. World Wrestling Entertainment
2. 1985 3. Mike Tyson 4. True
5. Stacks 6. “The Hitman” 7. Mickey
Rourke 8. Finn Bálor 9. Sumo
10. Kendo Nagasaki 11. Roman
12. Dwayne Johnson 13. “Can you
smell what the Rock is cooking?”
14. 2005 15. Muhammad Ali
16. Russia/Soviet Union 17. Super
heavy 18. John Cena 19. Adam Rose
20. True
QUIZ 273
1. True 2. Athletics 3. Jamaica
4. Sergei Bubka from Ukraine
5. Steeplechase 6. Seven events 7. Roger
Bannister 8. Baton 9. Triple jump
10. False 11. The marathon 12. Long
jump 13. Ten hurdles 14. Sand
15. Heptathlon 16. 9.58 seconds
17. Ten events 18. Athens, 2004
19. 1960 20. Every 2 years
QUIZ 274
1. New York Yankees 2. Fastball
3. Boston Red Sox 4. Billy Beane
5. False 6. The Teammates 7. Kevin
Costner 8. Joe DiMaggio 9. True
10. Alex Rodriguez 11. Wally the Green
Monster 12. Atlanta Braves 13. Japan
14. Cuba 15. Cal Ripken Jr. 16. Slider
17. Two 18. Pete Rose 19. 2001
20. George Plimpton
QUIZ 275
1. Five 2. The main stadium
in Beijing for the 2008 Games

3. Jesse Owens 4. 204 5. Sir Steve
Redgrave 6. Sydney 7. They are used
by short-race athletes to push off when
starting and are linked to the timing system
8. Faster, higher, stronger 9. Olive wreaths
10. Boycotts 11. False 12. Zola Budd
13. A flaming arrow 14. Paris, 1900
15. Brazil 16. 1,500 m 17. The main
continents of the world 18. Three times
19. Muhammad Ali 20. 1896
QUIZ 276
1. 18 2. Tiger 3. St. Andrews, Scotland
4. Europe 5. True 6. A green 7. Sand
wedge 8. Rory McIlroy 9. Coast
10. By teeing off 11. Germany 12. Birdie
13. Gary Woodland 14. Jack Nicklaus
15. Green 16. 15th century 17. A hole
18. True 19. On a driving range
20. Caddy
QUIZ 277
1. True 2. Sydney 2000 3. True
4. Five 5. False 6. Nadia Comaneci
7. 1896 8. Still rings 9. Max Whitlock
10. Rhythmic gymnastics 11. 0.5
12. Japan 13. True—Max Whitlock
won gold and Louis Smith took silver
14. American Simone Biles 15. True
16. On their feet 17. 1984 18. Barani
19. True 20. Olga Korbut
QUIZ 278
1. 3 out of 5 2. Five 3. Roger Federer
4. The Rod Laver Arena 5. Virginia Wade
6. The umpire 7. Hawk-Eye 8. The
Australian Open 9. Fred Perry in 1936
10. Fault 11. Venus 12. Novak Djokovic
13. 18 14. Wimbledon 15. Clay
16. The service line 17. Love 18. Felt
19. Wood 20. Deuce 21. Rafael Nadal
22. A serve that is not touched by an
opponent 23. Game, set, and match
24. Billie Jean King 25. A volley
QUIZ 279
1. Strips of soft leather 2. Strips of hard
leather with spikes 3. 1904 4. A pugilist
5. True 6. James Figg 7. The bout
QUIZ 276–282
ANSWERS
between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield
in 1987. Tyson bit off part of Holyfield’s
ear. Tyson was disqualified and lost his
boxing license 8. The Queensberry
Rules 9. None 10. 45 years old
11. Theodore Roosevelt 12. Featherweight
13. Idi Amin 14. Joe Louis 15. Floyd
Patterson 16. Muhammad Ali and Joe
Frazier 17. Mike Tyson and Evander
Holyfield 18. Sugar Ray Robinson
19. Joe Calzaghe 20. Sugar
Ray Robinson
QUIZ 280
1. Australia 2. Finland 3. Pancakes
4. True 5. Wales 6. Cell phones
7. 1973 8. Norway 9. Beer cans
10. True 11. Scotland 12. The World
Conker Championships 13. Cheese
14. La Tomatina 15. True 16. False
17. Derbyshire 18. 20 paddlers,
1 drummer, and 1 steerer 19. Their
wives 20. Twice
QUIZ 281
1. 1896 2. Japan 3. False 4. 1930s
5. True 6. Four 7. The dolphin kick
8. Australian champion Ian Thorpe
9. Adam Peaty 10. True 11. The US
12. Breaststroke 13. True 14. Backstroke
15. Running and cycling 16. 1976
17. True 18. Butterfly 19. False
20. Flippers 21. 2008 22. Breaststroke
23. Celebrating team members jumped
into the water before all the other
competitors had finished 24. False.
They can only do this in front crawl
or backstroke 25. Michael Phelps,
with 28 medals
QUIZ 282
1. At the Winter Olympics in
Innsbruck 2. Alberto Tomba 3. Old Norse
4. 93 mph (150 kmph) 5. Five 6. False
7. Sapporo 8. Piste 9. Germany
10. True 11. Streif, Hahnenkamm
12. St. Moritz 13. Canada 14. Croatian
15. “Ski Sunday” 16. Three
17. True 18. False 19. Black
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ANSWERS
20. Eddie the Eagle 21. A ski with
a raised tail so the skier can take off
and land backward 22. Downhill
23. Lake Placid 24. True
25. Both
QUIZ 283
1. True 2. 1936 3. He stands with
both thumbs pointing upward and with arms
extended 4. 23 5. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
6. Boston Celtics 7. Newcastle Eagles
8. Wilt Chamberlain 9. United States
10. LeBron James 11. 2014 12. Tyrone
Bogues, 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) 13. False—it’s
smaller 14. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
15. False. They are both the same height
16. L.A. Lakers 17. James Naismith
18. Chicago Bulls 19. Five titles 20. Karl
Malone 21. Ten players: five on each side
22. Air ball 23. Manchester 24. The
jump shot 25. When they are fouled
while shooting
QUIZ 284
1. 50 years of age 2. Spurs 3. Nat
Lofthouse 4. Plumbing 5. Ardwick
6. Billy Wright 7. Bobby Charlton
8. Center forward 9. Nothing 10. Prince
11. 3–2–2–3 formation 12. Coventry
City 13. £100 14. Fulham 15. 21 years
of age 16. Gordon Banks 17. Everton
18. False 19. True 20. Both Manchester
City and Manchester United 21. George
Best 22. “The wizard of dribble”
23. May 1959 24. Scotland
25. John Charles
QUIZ 285
1. 2012 2. Virgil van Dijk
3. Arsenal 4. Paris Saint-German
5. Pep Guardiola 6. Liverpool F.C.
7. Gareth Southgate 8. True
9. Goal-line technology 10. Roman
Abramovich 11. Milan 12. L.A. Galaxy
13. Argentina 14. Peter Shilton,
125 caps 15. Manchester United
16. False 17. Gary Lineker
18. Leicester City F.C. 19. True
20. 22 years, 1996–2018
502
21. Lev Yashin 22. Steven Gerrard
23. Neil Lennon 24. Manchester City
25. Uruguay
QUIZ 286
1. Skeleton bobsled 2. Half-pipe
3. Austria 4. The house 5. Nordic
Combined 6. 1924 7. Sarajevo 8. Alpine
skiing 9. St. Moritz, Switzerland 10. Luge
11. Slalom 12. 1998 13. USSR 14. False
15. Franz Klammer 16. Black 17. Granite
18. Eddie Edwards 19. Tomato 20. Ice
hockey 21. Biathlon 22. The
Netherlands 23. Bobsled 24. Lizzy
Yarnold in the skeleton bobsled
25. The St. Louis Blues
QUIZ 287
1. Flushing Meadows, New York 2. Pete
Sampras 3. 70–68 4. Love 5. Boris
Becker and Stefan Edberg 6. French Open
7. Two (2012 and 2016) 8. Davis Cup
9. Ivan Lendl 10. Coco Gauff 11. 331
weeks 12. False—she comes from
Australia 13. Wimbledon 14. Serious
15. A drop shot 16. The Fed Cup
17. 1877 18. 3½ ft (1.07 m) 19. Carbon
graphite 20. False 21. Approximately
62,000 lb (28,000 kg) 22. The pewter,
silver, and gold salver presented to the
Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champion
23. 1896 24. Seven points 25. Bob
and Mike Bryan
QUIZ 288
1. 1984 2. Canoe slalom 3. Tom Daley
4. Putney 5. In 1984, at the Los Angeles
Games 6. Ironman 7. Matthew Pinsent
8. Windsurfing board 9. Hungary and
USSR 10. Greg Louganis 11. True
12. Freestyle 13. True 14. Fort
Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro 15. True
16. 2000 17. 7 players 18. Lake Pepin,
Minnesota 19. Slalom and sprint
20. True
QUIZ 289
1. Sudan 2. The Harlem Globetrotters
3. Three seconds 4. FIBA—the

International Basketball Federation
5. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 6. Center
7. A backboard 8. A wedding dress
9. True 10. Orlando Magic 11. 94 ft
(28.65 m) 12. The six-foot semicircle used
for free throws 13. 1989 14. True.
This was for the 1936 Olympics, but
the proposal was later withdrawn
15. Montreal 1976 16. Boston Celtics
17. 10 ft (3 m) 18. 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
19. True 20. In 1936, and the USA
won 21. In 1976, and the USSR won
22. Jump 23. Robert Parish (USA)
1,611 games 24. 12 minutes
25. Seven substitutes
QUIZ 290
1. 164 ft (50 m) 2. Rome 1960
3. Starting blocks 4. 6 ft 6 in (2 m)
5. Freestyle and backstroke events
6. False—goggles were first allowed
at the Olympics in 1976 7. Alzain
Tareq from Bahrain 8. 800 m freestyle
9. Natation, the French word for
swimming 10. True 11. True
12. She swam the English Channel
four times 13. Swimsuits made of
polyurethane and elastane-nylon
14. 73 days 15. Chad Le Clos from
South Africa 16. Mark Spitz
17. Michael Phelps 18. Butterfly
19. Three 20. Three
QUIZ 291
1. The Webb Ellis Cup
2. Blanco 3. Daddy Cool 4. 1973
5. A gumshield, also known as a
mouthguard, fits over the teeth and
gums 6. Five 7. Tommy Makinson
of St. Helens 8. False 9. 1895
10. Eddie Waring 11. Harlequins
12. Scotland and England 13. Wigan
14. Chariots 15. St. Helens beat the
Salford Red Devils 16. Doctor
17. Cardiff Arms Park 18. Brian
Moore 19. 1995 20. Castleford
Tigers 21. Italy 22. False
23. Danny McGuire 24. 1897
25. Doug Howlett
QUIZ 290–295
ANSWERS
QUIZ 292
1. 1976 and 1984 2. 17/8 miles (3 km)
3. 1936 4. Steffi Graf 5. 1932 6. 9.79
seconds 7. Emil Zátopek 8. Weightlifting
9. Duncan Goodhew 10. Eric the Eel
11. True 12. The Dream Team 13. Olga
Korbut 14. White City 15. Cuba
16. 1916 17. 33 ft (10 m) 18. 1960
19. Ten 20. True
QUIZ 293
1. Five times 2. The Nürburgring, Germany
3. Silverstone 4. 23 years of age
5. Phil Hill and Mario Andretti 6. Wet
7. It had six wheels 8. A prancing horse
9. Tifosi 10. 41 races 11. 1929 12. British
American Racing 13. Monza 14. Danger
on or near the track 15. Singapore
16. Benetton 17. Turbocharged engines
18. Tubular framed 19. 3.2 seconds
(Benetton) 20. True—the Loews Hairpin
21. More than 200 mph (322 kmph)
22. 25 23. Seven times 24. Airfoils
25. 18 teams
QUIZ 294
1. Lotus 2. The Giro d’Italia
3. Six gold medals 4. 1903 5. The Milk
Race 6. Mont Ventoux 7. Eddy Merckx
8. 12 gold medals 9. The Tour de France
10. Four gold medals 11. Bicycle
motocross 12. Cycle speedway and Track
13. Red 14. The main group or pack of
riders 15. King of the Mountain 16. A
century ride 17. Mountain bike 18. The
Rover safety bicycle 19. Derailleur
20. A steep climb or descent
QUIZ 295
1. Glasgow Celtic 2. Libertadores
3. Togo 4. Paolo Rossi 5. Door-bolt
6. Gareth Barry, 653 7. Aberdeen
8. Benfica 9. Hugo Lloris 10. “Wonders”
11. Terry Venables 12. George Best
13. Republic of Ireland 14. Haarlem
15. Frank Rijkaard 16. Claudio Ranieri
17. 20 yd (18 m) 18. AC Milan
and Inter Milan 19. Preston
20. West Ham United
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 296
1. Nine 2. 1967 3. Green Bay
Packers 4. False 5. Ice hockey
6. Albert Pujols 7. False 8. Tiger
Woods 9. Bianca Andreescu from
Canada 10. 1984 11. Jesse Owens
12. False 13. Washington, D.C.
14. 2008 15. Pete Sampras 16. False
17. 3 games 18. St. Louis 19. Cricket
20. The Dallas Cowboys 21. Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil 22. The Kansas City
Chiefs 23. Nancy Kerrigan and
Tonya Harding 24. Houston
25. Basketball
QUIZ 297
1. Tae kwon do 2. London 2012
3. Cal Ripken Jr., for the Baltimore
Orioles 4. False 5. Rowing 6. 17.8 seconds
7. 3 minutes 43 seconds 8. Braun
Strowman 9. 85 ft (26 m) 10. Pittsburgh
Steelers 11. Kimi Räikkönen from
Finland (2007) 12. Eight 13. Drew
Brees 14. False 15. 400,000 people
16. 630 lbs (287 kg) 17. Rowing
18. False 19. Fencing
20. 6¾ miles (11 km)
QUIZ 298
1. Wipeout 2. “Ten” 3. Wednesday
4. A pretender 5. The Gold Coast
6. Captain Cook 7. Kelly Slater
8. Honolulu, Hawaii 9. Newquay
10. True 11. Australia 12. The Beach
Boys 13. Patrick Swayze 14. False
15. South Africa 16. Banzai
17. False 18. Oahu 19. Wax
20. A tube
QUIZ 299
1. Greg Louganis 2. Platform and
springboard 3. 2000 4. Shallow
water 5. True 6. 1924 7. True
8. True 9. True 10. The belly
flop 11. Mexico 12. Ilya Zakharov
13. 1904 14. Fancy diving
15. USA 16. True 17. A rip
entry 18. Vertical 19. Four
20. A reverse dive
504
QUIZ 300
1. Mexico 2. Five 3. Michael Strahan
4. Warren Moon 5. Drew Brees 6. 1920
7. Shoes 8. True 9. Peyton Manning
10. The Blindside 11. True 12. Chicago
Bears 13. Seven 14. Pittsburgh Steelers
15. Miami 16. Bill Belichick 17. About
11 in (28 cm) 18. Terry Bradshaw
19. Tom Brady 20. Baltimore Colts
QUIZ 301
1. Victory 2. Once 3. One 4. 42 years
old 5. Brazil 6. False 7. Brazil
8. South Africa 9. Germany
10. France and Mexico 11. 10–1
12. Twice 13. 2006 14. Eusebio
15. False 16. 1930 17. Never
18. Uruguay 19. Russia
20. 13
QUIZ 302
1. France 2. Hook 3. 80 ft (23 m)
4. True 5. Ryan Villopoto
6. “Mad Dog” 7. New Zealand
8. Oxford 9. False 10. 155 mph
(250 kmph) 11. Buildings 12. 12
13. Mountain bike 14. Alison Hargreaves
in 1988 15. Thermals 16. Wipe out
17. 19 minutes 21 seconds 18. Dawn
patrol 19. False 20. To stay airborne
for as long as possible 21. Zorbing
22. Slacklining 23. True
24. The wind 25. Summer and
winter each year
QUIZ 303
1. Barcelona 2. Javier Sotomayor
3. Dubai World Cup 4. 448 yds
5. True 6. Neil Jenkins 7. 27
8. True 9. Pittsburgh Steelers
10. USA 11. 23 12. Rod Laver
13. Thrust SSC 14. False
15. 100 16. Ferrari 17. 207 mph
(333 kmph) 18. 2004 19. True
20. 192 ft 10 in (58.8 m)
QUIZ 304
1. True 2. Tacking 3. A catamaran
4. 1969 5. The Jules Verne Trophy

6. Ten events 7. 608 8. Gypsy Moth IV
9. Four gold medals 10. Keelboat
11. The fastest solo nonstop
circumnavigation of the world
12. Morning Cloud 13. 1896
14. A line (rope) used for raising
or lowering sails 15. 49 days
16. Australia 17. A rudder steers
the boat 18. 1851 19. Tony Bullimore
20. Line (rope) for controlling and
adjusting the sails 21. Spinnaker
22. A tiller is a straight piece of
wood or metal that fits into the
rudder and is used to steer the boat
23. The hull 24. A schooner
25. False
QUIZ 305
1. Lewis Hamilton 2. False
3. 800 cc 4. ¼ miles (400 m)
5. 1923 6. 71 7. 1976 8. Jackie
Stewart 9. 1995 10. Five 11. Stock
12. Indianapolis 500 13. Seven
14. Graham Hill 15. Yamaha
16. Michael Delaney 17. Jackie
Stewart 18. All-Terrain Vehicle
19. Isle of Man 20. True 21. Six times
22. 50 cars 23. Blue 24. 1948
25. Green
QUIZ 306
1. A wide 2. West Indies 3. Australia
4. Brian Lara of Australia 5. Bails
6. Marylebone Cricket Club 7. 2013
8. “Supercat” 9. The Gabba 10. True
11. Gary Sobers 12. Dennis Lillee
13. England 14. W. G. Grace
15. False—it was Andrew Strauss
16. Alastair Cook 17. The New Zealand
Cricket Team 18. India 19. Lord’s
Cricket Ground 20. The Ashes
QUIZ 307
1. Simon Sherwood 2. Aldaniti and
Bob Champion 3. One mile, four furlongs,
and six yds (2,420 m) 4. Nine times
5. False 6. Longchamp 7. “The Shoe”
8. Handicap 9. Three 10. Bob
Champion 11. 1932 12. Tiger Roll
QUIZ 305–310
ANSWERS
13. George Stubbs 14. Siena
15. True 16. Hong Kong 17. Suffolk
18. 1977 19. Devon Loch
20. True 21. Silks 22. Ted
Walsh (trainer) and Ruby
Walsh (jockey) 23. Sandringham
24. Ascot 25. King Charles II
QUIZ 308
1. 21 years old 2. Oakmont,
Pennsylvania 3. 2017 (US Open)
4. 336 5. Hinako Shibuno 6. True
7. Nine 8. Sam Snead 9. The Masters
10. Four 11. 49 12. Amen Corner
13. South Korean 14. Craig Stadler
15. Nick Faldo 16. True
17. 210–240 yd 18. Walter Hagen
19. Jack Nicklaus 20. 1979
21. Ben Crenshaw 22. St. Andrews
(29 times) 23. 14 24. 1811, in
Musselburgh, Scotland
25. True
QUIZ 309
1. Kinetic 2. Jack Brabham
3. 25 points 4. Watkins Glen
5. 1992 6. True 7. Alfa Romeo
8. Fernando Alonso 9. 2,800 times
10. Nine 11. Diamonds 12. 51
13. Mercedes-Benz 14. True
15. Hesketh 16. Lotus-Ford
17. Four drivers 18. True
19. Canada 20. Position
QUIZ 310
1. Bournemouth 2. Adenor Leonardo
Bacchi (commonly known as Tite)
3. The Battle of Spion Kop, 1900
4. 1863 5. Partizan Belgrade
6. False 7. Everton—Nothing but
the best is enough 8. Billy Wright
9. D.C. United, Washington
10. 12 yd (11 m) 11. A jar of
mayonnaise 12. True 13. Gerd
Muller 14. Copa del Generalisimo
15. Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow,
Russia 16. Gustav Sebes
17. Luigi Riva 18. Fiorentina
19. 1956 20. King Edward II
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 311
1. Trevor Berbick 2. Bob Fitzsimmons
3. National Sporting Club 4. Tunney
Hunsacker 5. Barry McGuigan 6. Roberto
Duran 7. Tunisia 8. Five times 9. Walker
Smith Jr. 10. Frank Warren 11. Kronk
12. Southpaws 13. Both ears 14. True
15. He is considered one of the greatest
knockout boxers of all time 16. True
17. 32 years old 18. 10 oz 19. False
20. Technical knockout
QUIZ 312
1. Oatmeal and honey 2. Brigid Kosgei
of Kenya 3. 1896 4. 645 5. Elaine
Thompson 6. More than 40,000 7. True
8. Kahit Isang Araw Lang (Even Just for
a Day) Unity Run 9. The knee 10. The
London Olympics in 1908 11. Roger
Bannister 12. Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya
13. Pheidippides (490 bce , Greece)
14. Time divided by distance
15. The number of steps a runner takes
each minute 16. Nepal 17. 346 calories
18. In running, both feet leave the
ground regularly 19. Bill Clinton
20. Microscopic tears in muscle fibers
QUIZ 313
1. “The Diamonds” 2. Richmond F.C.
3. Vow and Declare 4. True 5. Boxing
Day 6. Tim Paine 7. Novak Djokovic
8. Port Adelaide and the Brisbane Lions
9. Three field umpires 10. Queensland
11. Twice 12. Mount Panorama, NSW
13. Melbourne 14. Adelaide, South
Australia 15. 120 m 16. The Brownlow
Medal 17. Ten teams 18. 99.94
19. Brisbane Heat 20. Ashleigh Barty
QUIZ 314
1. Skittles 2. Cricket 3. Hurling
4. The 15th century 5. A mass
tournament of mounted fighters 6. True
7. A joust for pleasure 8. In the butts
9. False 10. The 17th century
11. A quarterstaff 12. Royalty and
nobles 13. English men between
15 and 60 14. France 15. True
506
16. 12 arrows 17. A joust to the death
18. True 19. Two 20. Stakes
QUIZ 315
1. 1912 2. 4 riders 3. 4500 bce
4. Thoroughbred 5. Arab breeds
6. 1900 7. Puissance 8. True
9. Nick Skelton 10. Aachen, Germany
11. Afghanistan 12. True 13. Victoria
Pendleton 14. 1949 15. True. Australian
quarantine laws were so strict that
competitors’ horses were banned
16. The Middle Ages 17. Charlotte Brew
18. True 19. No team finished the
course, and no medals were awarded
20. Commissioned officers in the
armed forces
QUIZ 316
1. Raw fish and rice 2. A type of pasta
3. Vegetable 4. Lentils 5. Wheat, water,
eggs 6. Upside-down French apple cake
7. USA 8. Heston Blumenthal 9. Roots of
the sassafras plant 10. Tibet 11. North
Indian 12. Morocco 13. Spanish omelette
14. Greece 15. Holland 16. The skin
17. In a sushi bar 18. Dill 19. In Scottish
chip shops 20. Churros
QUIZ 317
1. Sussex pond 2. A savory bun
3. Haggis 4. False 5. Leicestershire
6. Scones with butter and/or clotted cream
and strawberry jam 7. Pig 8. Wimbledon
9. Toad 10. Minced beef 11. False
12. Hash browns 13. Elderflower 14. True
15. Staffordshire 16. Speckled bread
17. All of them 18. Wensleydale
19. Batter 20. May
QUIZ 318
1. German 2. More than 4,000 years
3. 5th century 4. Japan 5. Fried
6. Thailand 7. China 8. Mung beans
9. Tadpole noodles 10. Persian
11. Meat noodles 12. Around 1900
13. Kalguksu 14. True 15. Rice
16. False 17. 1958 18. The Han
Dynasty 19. True 20. Thailand

21. Complex 22. A pudding 23. Penne
24. Soba 25. True
QUIZ 319
1. Salt 2. Turophile 3. Poland
4. Tooth decay 5. Egypt 6. Spain
7. Cyclops 8. Around 700 9. France
10. Live insect larvae 11. Switzerland
12. False 13. Ben Gunn 14. Greece
15. True 16. Good sleep 17. True
18. Mozzarella 19. Green 20. True
21. California 22. Ewe 23. It has a
red rind 24. True 25. False
QUIZ 320
1. Florida 2. Maine and Massachusetts
3. Illinois 4. Alaska 5. 1960s 6. New
England 7. The South 8. German and
Austrian immigrants 9. Bouillabaisse
10. New Mexico 11. Buffalo 12. Seattle
13. Neither is native to the US
14. Louisiana 15. Green chile stew
16. Massachusetts 17. Pasadena
18. True 19. 46 20. California
QUIZ 321
1. Lobster 2. Gastropods 3. Prawns
and shrimp 4. Shucking 5. Bernie Bay
shuckler 6. True 7. Clams 8. France
9. Ceviche 10. Tiger 11. True
12. New Zealand 13. Oysters
14. Maryland 15. Chile 16. False
17. On a bed of ice 18. USA
19. Maine 20. Mussels 21. Liver
and pancreas 22. True 23. A main
course combining red meat and
seafood 24. An edible hard clam
25. Cockleshells
QUIZ 322
1. The onion 2. The banana
3. Honey 4. Blueberries 5. Fish
6. Green tea 7. Broccoli 8. The walnut
9. Dark chocolate 10. Yogurt 11. Garlic
12. The sweet potato 13. The
pineapple 14. False 15. Rheumatism
and indigestion 16. Fennel
17. The apple 18. Cranberries
19. Celery 20. True
QUIZ 319–327
ANSWERS
QUIZ 323
1. Victoria 2. True 3. Lemon
4. Vegetables 5. False 6. Japan
7. Fruit and sugar 8. Spain 9. Piece
of muslin 10. False 11. Brewing
12. True 13. Indefinitely 14. Gravadlax
15. Fruit 16. True 17. Salt and water
18. Vinegar 19. 221°F (105˚C) 20. True
21. Portuguese word marmela meaning
quince 22. India 23. Lactic acid
24. Cabbage 25. Cucumber
QUIZ 324
1. Yeast 2. Doughnut 3. Bavaria
4. Christmas 5. True 6. Marcel Proust
7. Italy 8. True 9. Scotland 10. Anna
Pavlova 11. Pastry 12. Mascarpone
13. Cream 14. False 15. Scone
16. Mexico 17. India 18. Sliced
bread 19. True 20. Blind baking
QUIZ 325
1. Cocoa 2. Peru 3. Bread 4. Asia
5. South America 6. Before midday
7. Alligator pear 8. France 9. The squash
10. Around 24 hours 11. The fig
12. Lancashire 13. True 14. More
than 1,000 15. The Middle East
16. Italy 17. Rarebit 18. China
19. False 20. The yam 21. Central
America 22. Sugar 23. Chipolata
24. World War II 25. Cyprus
QUIZ 326
1. Brussels sprouts 2. Thanksgiving
3. Stollen 4. Easter 5. True 6. Boxing
Day 7. Turkey 8. True 9. Pancakes
10. Hot 11. Hot cross buns 12. Pecan pie
13. New Zealand 14. Dundee cake
15. Japan 16. Ale 17. Sweden
18. A silver sixpence 19. Cranberries
20. Orange 21. Mustard and horseradish
22. False 23. Gingerbread house
24. True 25. Poultry
QUIZ 327
1. More than 7,500 2. Matthew Bramley
3. True 4. Pear 5. Britain 6. China
7. True 8. True 9. New Zealand
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 QUIZ 328–336
ANSWERS
10. Smith 11. Australia 12. King
Edward 13. True 14. True
15. 1809 16. Rose 17. Cider
18. The southwest 19. American
Mother 20. Johnny Appleseed
QUIZ 328
1. Dried currants 2. Profiteroles
3. Turnips 4. Epiphany 5. True
6. Breakfast 7. Meringue 8. Pick me
up 9. Eton 10. Rice pudding 11. Burned
cream 12. Thanksgiving 13. A dumpling
14. Ballet dancing 15. Scotland
16. Lemon 17. True 18. Manchester tart
19. Orange 20. Bread
QUIZ 329
1. True 2. French and Russian
3. It turns black 4. Sage 5. Spring
6. Chives 7. False 8. Hot and sunny
9. Rosemary 10. Coriander 11. A cough
12. True 13. Courage 14. Four to six weeks
15. Oregano 16. Dill 17. True 18. French
19. Christianity 20. Annuals 21. Relax
and sleep 22. Crystallized 23. Oregano
24. Lamb 25. Catnip
QUIZ 330
1. True 2. Seitan 3. Asia
4. A green dot in a square 5. Any
products that come from animals
6. 1812 7. Health 8. Between 50
and 400 9. True 10. 5–10% 11. Fruits,
nuts, and seeds 12. India 13. Ritual
sacrifice 14. False 15. Nori 16. Some
animals are too cute to kill and eat
17. Allium 18. Bean curd 19. True
20. People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals
QUIZ 331
1. All of them 2. True 3. All of them
4. True 5. True 6. Peach 7. Seeds
8. Discovery 9. True 10. Melon
11. Carrot 12. The skin will blacken
13. Quince 14. Fig 15. Five 16. A
flightless bird from New Zealand
17. True 18. Cloudberry 19. Mango
20. Valencia 21. 92% 22. True
508
23. A Chinese gooseberry 24. True
25. Grapefruit
QUIZ 332
1. India 2. South America 3. True
4. A sunflower 5. White 6. Squash
7. False 8. Cauliflower 9. Lisa
10. Charlotte 11. False 12. Potato
13. Okra 14. Spinach 15. Beetroot
16. True 17. True 18. Pink 19. 2–3 years
20. Broccoli 21. Manioc 22. Wales
23. A type of cabbage 24. Brassicas
25. They contain a chemical that
irritates the eyes
QUIZ 333
1. Basil 2. American 3. Basil 4. True
5. Chive 6. Herb 7. Basil 8. Dill
9. Celery 10. Licorice 11. Underground
rootstalks 12. All of these 13. Parsley and
mint 14. Thyme 15. True 16. Rosemary
17. Tansy 18. Parsley 19. Chervil
20. Yellow
QUIZ 334
1. False 2. True 3. True
4. True 5. Noodles 6. Soy sauce
7. A wok 8. Deep-frying to seal in the
juices 9. Around a round table 10. Oolong
11. They are considered weapons
12. Bamboo shoots 13. Wine 14. They
cook more quickly 15. Add them to
iced water 16. A gas flame 17. Fugu
18. Pilau rice 19. Sea aubergine
20. It is steamed 21. True 22. False
23. A dumpling 24. False 25. Peanut
QUIZ 335
1. Poha 2. Yogurt 3. Scotland 4. Diseased
corn 5. Jamaica 6. Pakistan 7. Khubz
8. Cheese 9. Korea 10. False 11. Hawaii
12. Japan 13. Russia 14. Pho
15. Senegal 16. Pig 17. Finland
18. True 19. Spain 20. Rice
QUIZ 336
1. Queen Anne 2. 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm
3. 5:00 pm 4. Cantonese 5. Alcohol
6. The 18th century 7. Matcha

8. Cucumber sandwiches 9. Tea dances
10. China 11. Tea bags 12. True
13. Mint 14. As a formal declaration
of war 15. 1662 16. India 17. False
18. Green tea 19. The 8th century
20. Golden syrup
QUIZ 337
1. Bell peppers 2. Scotland 3. True
4. Goa 5. Catalan 6. Gamla Stan
7. Frankfurter Würstchen 8. Chicken
liver 9. China 10. Salt 11. True
12. South Africa 13. 2011 14. Paprika
15. Mortadella 16. True 17. Spain
18. The Latin salsisium (being salted)
19. Switzerland 20. Germany
21. Due to their pagan connections
22. France 23. Hot dog 24. True
25. 2000
QUIZ 338
1. All of them 2. Smoked cod’s roe
3. Arctic cod 4. A pilchard 5. Bacalhau
6. Perch 7. Pry the shells apart
8. Bright, convex, and black 9. Bluefin
tuna 10. Loin fillet 11. The gills
12. True 13. Herring 14. A round-edge
mother-of-pearl spoon 15. South America
16. Old English fisc 17. Vietnam
18. Thinner bones 19. True
20. Salmon
QUIZ 339
1. Large croutons 2. Zuppa Toscana
3. Andy Warhol 4. Dried swiftlet
saliva 5. Onions, celery, carrots
6. 6000 bce 7. Potato 8. False
9. Penicillin 10. Provence
11. Cock-a-leekie 12. True
13. False 14. Shark-fin soup 15. False
16. True 17. Cabbage-soup diet
18. A calf’s head 19. Clear 20. Pepper
water 21. A tureen 22. Sassafras
23. Lentils 24. Greece 25. Bhutan
QUIZ 340
1. Kao 2. The pith 3. Energy drink
4. Northeast 5. A fork and spoon
6. Lime 7. All that and more
QUIZ 337–344
ANSWERS
8. Papaya 9. It has a harder, woodier
texture 10. False 11. True 12. Thai
brown curry 13. True 14. Fish sauce
15. False 16. Green chicken curry
17. Seaweed 18. Bad manners
19. Sticky rice 20. True
QUIZ 341
1. Baking a crust or pastry without filling
2. An open-topped pastry shell with a
filling 3. North Carolina 4. Decorative
edges for pies 5. Early British-American
colonies 6. Four and Twenty 7. Coffyn
8. Elizabeth I 9. Placenta 10. True
11. 1545 12. Pizza 13. False 14. The
Philippines 15. Coulibiac 16. True
17. Christmas 18. Pennsylvania and the
Delaware Valley 19. Spinach
20. A captive girl 21. Pizza dough
22. Titus Andronicus 23. Fish
heads 24. Pork pies 25. True
QUIZ 342
1. Haggis 2. Ketchup 3. Somalia
4. Absinthe 5. China 6. The European
Union 7. Jelly Sweets 8. 22 9. Casu
marzu 10. A small songbird 11. Belgium
12. America 13. False 14. Taiwan
15. A carbonated soft drink matured in
barrels 16. Blackened redfish
17. False 18. A herb 19. Ackee
20. Kinder Eggs
QUIZ 343
1. Hula Burger 2. Coca-Cola Bla¯ K
3. New Coke 4. 30 g—38 percent of
the DV (daily value) 5. True 6. McCaviar
7. Hershey’s Desert Bar 8. Sip Ups 9. Tan
10. New Coke 11. True 12. The McDLT
13. Burger King 14. Yes 15. False
16. Pepsi Blue 17. Breakfast Mates
18. False 19. Orbitz 20. Yellow
QUIZ 344
1. Yemen 2. Cocoa powder or dark
chocolate 3. New Zealand and Australia
4. Espresso 5. Venice 6. Mint 7. China
8. Oxford 9. Chocolate 10. The
American Civil War 11. Burned bread
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 QUIZ 345–352
ANSWERS
12. Espressino 13. China
14. Martinique 15. Lime 16. Triple
Death 17. Portugal 18. Mali
19. North America 20. False
21. Red Tux 22. False 23. Turkey
24. True 25. Camellia
QUIZ 345
1. Christopher Columbus
2. Tom yum 3. 140 4. The Indus
Valley civilization 5. India 6. Goa
7. Scoville heat unit 8. True 9. Birds
10. Pyro-gourmaniacs 11. Hallucinations
12. Capsaicin 13. Africa 14. Trinidad
15. More than six million 16. Shrimp
creole 17. Ten 18. Regent Street
19. True 20. Asian
QUIZ 346
1. 19½ lbs (9 kg) 2. Crème brulée
3. Zabaglione 4. Brown Betty
5. Marie Antoinette 6. Spain
7. Choux pastry 8. Flambéed
9. Baked Alaska 10. A cloth
or shirt sleeve 11. Cherries
12. Syllabub 13. Eton mess
14. Bee sting cake 15. Dame Nellie
Melba 16. Rich, high-quality chocolate
17. You won’t marry this year 18. Greece
19. No, it can make them very ill
20. Cream (or milk) sugar, vanilla,
and egg yolks
QUIZ 347
1. Pork 2. Burger King 3. Shank
4. Cured 5. Pork 6. Pig 7. To
seal in the juices 8. Seared and
just warm within 9. Offal 10. True
11. Steak 12. Bacon 13. 668 ft 7.62 in
(203.80 m) 14. Adult sheep
15. Blood sausage 16. Buzzard
17. 75% 18. Shoulder 19. Beef, capers,
shallots, egg yolk 20. Chicken
QUIZ 348
1. France 2. $35 million 3. Tarts
4. Mille-feuille 5. Goa, India 6. Ice
cream 7. Pink and yellow 8. False
9. Butter 10. Glossy 11. A sponge cake
510
with buttercream 12. King cake
13. True 14. Ancient Greeks
15. Apples 16. Choux 17. Red bean
paste 18. True 19. Muscovado
20. Double cream
QUIZ 349
1. Chinese cabbage 2. Ramen
3. Sweet potato 4. Baguette
5. Currywurst 6. Frozen whale skin
7. True 8. Nigeria 9. North Africa
10. Chickpeas 11. 5,000 years
12. Pita bread 13. United States
14. Canada 15. False 16. White
17. True 18. A caterpillar
19. Jamaica 20. Mexico
QUIZ 350
1. True 2. Italian flour 3. 77–82.4ºF
(25–28ºC) 4. Maillard 5. 20.8 seconds
6. False 7. Fougasse 8. Four
9. True 10. 1986 11. Northeast
England 12. A tava 13. Lard
14. Deep-fat frying 15. Bodding
16. Amish 17. Ficelles 18. Brioche
des rois 19. Potato flour
20. Germany
QUIZ 351
1. All of them are possible sources
2. Ha¯ ngi, a pit oven 3. Kebab
4. Lyndon B. Johnson 5. In the
last few minutes 6. Auguste Escoffier
7. Scotch bonnet chili pepper 8. True
9. USA and Canada 10. A type of outdoor
grill 11. Hobo pack cooking 12. 900ºF
(480ºC) 13. A flare-up 14. False
15. Herbs and spices rubbed onto
meat 16. France 17. During cooking
18. Freshwater crayfish 19. Monkfish
20. FSC charcoal
QUIZ 352
1. Balam 2. OO 3. Squid or
cuttlefish ink 4. Wheels 5. Tube
6. To the tooth 7. Broth 8. True
9. Spinach 10. False 11. 12,388 ft
(3,776 m) 12. Spiral 13. Orzo
14. Alfredo 15. Not leave it unattended

16. Orecchiette 17. Capelli d’angelo
18. A bow tie 19. False 20. Lumps
QUIZ 353
1. Saffron 2. True 3. Rosemary
4. Curry leaves 5. Chilies 6. Sesame
7. The white pith veins in the pod
8. False 9. Pink pepper 10. Tamarind
11. True 12. True 13. India and
Sri Lanka 14. Nigella 15. White
turmeric 16. Allspice 17. True 18. Hot
spices or mixture 19. Turmeric
20. Infinity 21. Cayenne 22. Inner
tree bark 23. Lemongrass
24. On trees 25. Red
QUIZ 354
1. True 2. True 3. Warm, mild
weather after rain 4. Early morning
5. Field mushrooms 6. Chicken-of-
the-woods 7. Cauliflower fungus
8. Common puff balls 9. Clustered
domecap 10. Mycologist 11. Honey
mushroom 12. Deceiver 13. False
14. Northwestern Italy 15. Early
summer to autumn 16. True 17. True
18. Hedgehog fungus 19. Summer
truffle 20. Cauliflower fungus
QUIZ 355
1. Western South America
2. As seeds in the stomachs of turtles
3. More than 5,000 4. True 5. Globe
tomatoes 6. Their shape and size 7. True
8. Lycopene 9. Hidden Rose 10. Five
11. Alfredo 12. Where the calyx joins
the stem 13. Mozzarella and basil
14. Exposing them to the outdoors
15. The fruit splitting 16. Unripe tomatoes
17. True 18. Bananas 19. False
20. Sliced, coated with cornmeal,
and fried
QUIZ 356
1. 80% 2. Up to nine months
3. False 4. Cucumbers 5. Storing
underground for the winter 6. Autumn
7. True 8. False 9. Spring
10. False 11. Apples 12. Onions
QUIZ 353–360
ANSWERS
13. At the end of summer 14. An
overripe fruit 15. August 16. Summer
17. Rhubarb 18. Chits 19. They grow
all year round 20. Apple
QUIZ 357
1. Pufferfish 2. France 3. They contain
too much poisonous ciguatoxin
4. They smell so bad 5. Sweden
6. Taipei 7. South Korea 8. Fenugreek
9. Saliva nests made by swifts
10. Fermented herring 11. Spain
12. Kleftiko 13. Steak 14. Dried mango
15. Portugal 16. Raw fish 17. Chicago
18. Coffee 19. About 100 days
20. A cut of tuna 21. Cambodia
22. Giant black Liometopum ants’
eggs 23. Eating death 24. Cambodia
25. True
QUIZ 358
1. Pig 2. Steaming 3. Picos Blue
4. Mozzarella 5. Tunworth 6. Sticky
and pungent 7. Blue Monday 8. Feta
9. Champagne 10. False 11. True
12. Lombardy 13. Gubbeen 14. Coagulated
milk proteins 15. Its holes 16. Mozzarella
17. Brine solution 18. Dorset Blue Vinny
19. Ford Farm Cave-Aged Cheddar
20. 6000 bce 21. True 22. 1941
23. Derbyshire, Leicestershire,
Nottinghamshire 24. 1816
25. Roquefort
QUIZ 359
1. True 2. La Varenne 3. Napoleon
4. High 5. Haricot 6. Burgundy
7. 1900 8. Amuse-bouche 9. Fish stew
or soup 10. Raymond Blanc 11. 1960s
12. Taillevent 13. Bistro 14. Snails
15. Lyon 16. Beef 17. Liver 18. False
19. Chive 20. Bread
QUIZ 360
1. New Zealand 2. True 3. True
4. Shiokara 5. Fish-head soup
6. Iceland 7. Bagoong 8. China
9. False 10. Turtle 11. China
12. Philippines 13. Norway
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 QUIZ 361–368
ANSWERS
14. Guinea pig 15. Grasshoppers
16. Iceland 17. Sweetbreads
18. Schmaltz 19. Spring rolls
20. North America
QUIZ 361
1. Over 100 2. Southfork 3. Heather
Locklear 4. Falcon Crest 5. Models Inc.
6. 1993 7. Dynasty 8. Lucy 9. Knots
Landing 10. Dynasty 11. General
Hospital 12. False 13. Gary Ewing
14. 2011 15. True 16. Days of Our
Lives 17. Patrick Duffy 18. It was
cancelled after one season 19. 2012
20. Marcia Cross
QUIZ 362
1. Yorkshire 2. Highclere Castle in
Hampshire 3. Julian Fellowes 4. Daisy
5. Lady Edith Crawley 6. TV antennas
7. Lord Robert Crawley 8. Mrs. Hughes
9. Shrimpie 10. Dame Maggie
Smith 11. The sinking of the Titanic
12. Thomas, the underbutler 13. Elsie
14. Isis 15. Dowager Countess of
Grantham 16. Lady’s maid to Lady Crawley
17. The outbreak of World War I 18. Sir
Anthony Strallan 19. Mrs. Patmore
20. Kiri Te Kanawa
QUIZ 363
1. Horses 2. Robert Lindsay
3. The Home Guard 4. Outnumbered
5. Allo Allo 6. Dawn French 7. Fawlty
Towers 8. Norman Stanley Fletcher
9. Arkwright 10. David Jason 11. A
spaceship 12. Four seasons 13. True
14. Extras 15. False 16. Joanna Lumley
17. Craggy Island 18. Richard Briers
19. Grace Brothers 20. India and Burma
(Myanmar) 21. Little Britain 22. Uncle
Albert in Only Fools and Horses
23. One Foot in the Grave
24. Rigsby 25. Hamster
QUIZ 364
1. Woody 2. True 3. An ogre 4. Tap
dancing 5. Dr. Seuss 6. Pixar 7. True
8. France 9. True 10. Anime 11. Jessica
512
Rabbit 12. Toy Story 13. A clownfish
14. 101 Dalmations 15. Gromit 16. Flik
17. Balloons 18. Madagascar 19. Forky
20. Arendale 21. Happy Feet 22. Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs 23. The Little
Mermaid 24. Gru and the Minions 25. False
QUIZ 365
1. True 2. The Lost Weekend 3. Some
Like It Hot 4. James Stewart 5. Sunset
Boulevard 6. True 7. The Seven Year Itch
8. Sugar Kane 9. Fascination 10. Jack
Lemmon 11. 1960 12. The Cleveland
Browns 13. False 14. James Cagney
15. A POW camp 16. Spats 17. The
Major and the Minor 18. Audrey Hepburn
19. Witness for the Prosecution 20. 1981
QUIZ 366
1. 58 films 2. Steamboat Willie
3. Genovia 4. His nose grew
5. Dumbo 6. Thumper 7. Lewis
Carroll 8. Tchaikovsky 9. Rapunzel
10. Elton John and Tim Rice 11. Fire
12. Kids 13. The West Wing 14. False
15. True 16. James P. Sullivan 17. A
donkey 18. Dug 19. Pluto 20. Minnie
21. Queen Narissa 22. Sir Hiss
23. Six sisters 24. Mortimer and
Minerva 25. 10,000 years
QUIZ 367
1. True 2. Hammer 3. Halloween
4. Vincent Price 5. Washington, D.C.
6. George A. Romero 7. True 8. Stephen
King 9. The Fly 10. Witch 11. Jason
12. Stanley Kubrick 13. He froze to
death 14. Spiders 15. Boris Karloff
16. The Mummy 17. Modern-day
Romania 18. London 19. Peter Cushing
20. Se7en 21. Monica (Courteney
Cox) 22. A lamb 23. Norman Bates
24. Poltergeist 25. With the help of
a bolt of lightning
QUIZ 368
1. Alone 2. Jodie Foster 3. The
Railway Children 4. Spy Kids
5. History 6. Hannah Montana

7. Harry Potter and the Chamber
of Secrets 8. He hit his head
9. It glowed red 10. Johnny Depp
11. Garfield 12. True 13. Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang 14. True 15. 1939
16. Kid 17. Herbie 18. A lion
19. Jack Black 20. Rubens
QUIZ 369
1. Zombie 2. Inspector Clouseau
3. Sugar Kane 4. True 5. Stockbroker
6. Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell
7. A leopard 8. The Odd Couple
9. The Jerk 10. True 11. Ealing
12. Spinal Tap 13. Brian 14. False
15. The Marx Brothers 16. Country
music 17. Will Smith 18. Woody Allen
19. Ted Striker 20. Carry On…
QUIZ 370
1. True 2. Miss Moneypenny
3. Q 4. 007 5. Dr. No 6. Oddjob
7. Sharks 8. On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service 9. Francisco Scaramanga
10. Max Zorin 11. False 12. Severnaya
13. 006 14. BMW 15. Christmas Jones
16. Verity 17. Vesper Lynd 18. Aston
Martin DB5 19. Camille 20. Seven
QUIZ 371
1. Ryan 2. True 3. Stalingrad
4. World War I 5. Richard Harris
6. Brigade 7. The Crimean War
8. False—the film’s title is The Imitation
Game 9. Kwai 10. Zulu 11. True
12. Rommel 13. Sam Mendes 14. The
Pianist 15. Black Hawk Down 16. D-Day
17. Brad Pitt 18. Glory 19. A Bridge
Too Far 20. True
QUIZ 372
1. 29 years 2. “Wish me luck”
3. Architect 4. Archie Bunker’s Place
5. Lou Grant 6. John Patrick Francis
Mulcahy 7. “Goodbye, Farewell, and
Amen” 8. True 9. Kristin Shepard
10. True 11. False 12. The Flintstones
13. David Cassidy 14. Lilies
15. William McKinley High School
QUIZ 369–376
ANSWERS
16. Cooper and Hofstadter 17. 2008
18. Salem 19. “The Puffy Shirt”
20. Arnold’s
QUIZ 373
1. Vermont 2. True 3. We don’t find out
4. A Red Ryder BB gun 5. False—Irving
Berlin wrote the song 6. Paris 7. Bob
Cratchit 8. The film’s director, Vincente
Minnelli 9. Shower curtain rings
10. Letters addressed to Santa 11. Jim
Carrey 12. Clarence 13. True 14. A silk
top hat 15. W. Somerset Maugham
16. A Turbo-Man action toy 17. 1,938
candy canes 18. Thurman Merman
19. Six characters 20. Eight couples
QUIZ 374
1. Matthew Broderick 2. Wyld Stallyns
3. Francis Ford Coppola 4. Molly
Ringwald 5. Baltimore 6. “Flashdance…
What a Feeling” 7. Purple Rain 8. False
9. Iceman 10. The Library 11. The Brat
Pack 12. Dancing 13. Stephen King
14. True 15. Madonna 16. Extra
17. Kelly LeBrock 18. Ghostbusters
19. Eddie Murphy 20. 1955 21. Steven
Spielberg 22. Beetlejuice 23. Wall Street
24. Flashdance 25. Short Circuit
QUIZ 375
1. Jim Henson 2. Beaker 3. The
Wombles 4. Make Good Use of Bad
Rubbish 5. Teletubbies 6. Sesame Street
7. SpongeBob SquarePants 8. 1987
9. Matt Groening 10. Guitar
11. Nickelodeon 12. 1969 13. Rainbow
14. Hannah Montana 15. An explorer
16. To teach through problem solving
17. Wizards 18. The Clangers 19. Dr. Who
20. Kermit the Frog
QUIZ 376
1. False 2. 10 years old 3. Three
4. Katherine Hepburn 5. Shrek 6. One
7. Both refused Best Actor awards
8. Best Costume Design 9. The Academy
Awards 10. Clark Gable 11. Claudette
Colbert 12. Sidney Poitier 13. Godfather II
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ANSWERS
14. Gone With the Wind 15. Sylvester
Stallone 16. Wolves 17. False 18. None
19. The King’s Speech 20. 11 Oscars
QUIZ 377
1. Stanley Kubrick 2. Jaws 3. Pandora
4. Jane Fonda 5. Duran Duran
6. Gravity 7. The Tempest 8. 23rd century
9. A Vulcan nerve pinch 10. False
11. Robocop 12. The Third Kind 13. Bugs
14. Planet of the Apes 15. Luke Skywalker
16. The ruined Statue of Liberty 17. Mars
18. True 19. The Day the Earth Stood Still
20. Bender 21. Isla Nubar 22. Jonesy
23. 30 years 24. Raspberry jam
25. A deadly dust storm
QUIZ 378
1. Sunlight 2. Dead 3. Count Dracula
4. HAL 5. Woman 6. Troll 7. Beauty
8. The priest 9. David Bowie 10. Chucky
11. Godzilla 12. A Zombie 13. Boring!
14. They’re blind and very sensitive to noise
15. False 16. Michael Myers 17. Blood
18. New York 19. Kraken 20. She turns
into a giant after being hit by a meteorite
QUIZ 379
1. True 2. Anastasia and Drizella
3. Briar Rose 4. True 5. She uses the
magic mirror 6. Rajah 7. A spinning
arrow 8. An apple 9. Tiana’s Palace
10. False 11. True 12. Mrs. Potts
13. The marketplace 14. James
15. To comb hair 16. Eugene Fitzherbert
17. Because she is beautiful 18. A tiny
dragon 19. The Powhaton tribe
20. It turns brown
QUIZ 380
1. Stagecoach 2. False 3. Corral
4. Four Oscars 5. High Noon 6. True
7. Monument Valley 8. False 9. Arizona
10. Doc Holliday 11. The Seven Samurai
12. John Wayne 13. Trigger 14. True
15. Gene Hackman 16. The Shootist
17. Mel Brooks 18. True 19. False—he
plays Butch Cassidy 20. The Wild Bunch
21. Eli Wallach 22. Natalie Wood
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23. Django Unchained 24. The Treasure
of the Sierra Madre 25. Kevin Costner
QUIZ 381
1. George O’Malley, a long-serving intern
2. Copenhagen 3. She’s a half-fairy
4. Jean Sylvester 5. Jim Halpert 6. True
7. Bentley 8. An octopus in the show
SpongeBob SquarePants 9. Kevin
10. Matt Damon 11. Caroline Forbes
12. Michael Crichton 13. Bipolar
disorder 14. He tackled a defender
15. False 16. 2006 17. Sandra
Diaz-Twine 18. Teri Hatcher
19. China and India 20. Katie Lee
Joel 21. Kim Cattrall 22. Lily Tomlin
23. Better Call Saul is a prequel to
the older series 24. Thandie Newton
25. 28 seasons
QUIZ 382
1. Marlon Brando 2. Good Friday
3. Two 4. Goodfellas 5. Faces
6. Dead 7. John Dillinger 8. Heat
9. American 10. True 11. White Heat
12. Michael Caine 13. Faye Dunaway
and Warren Beatty 14. Sergio Leone
15. Dogs 16. Corleone 17. Rock
18. Casino 19. Chicago 20. True
QUIZ 383
1. MI5 2. The Grid 3. The Russians
4. Thames House, London 5. Section D
6. Ben Kaplan 7. Season 6 8. Nightingale
9. Spooks: Code 9 10. True 11. John
Bateman 12. A genetic weapon
13. Federal Security Service
14. Erin Watts 15. Sharecropper
16. Victor Elliott 17. Freelance
engineer 18. St. Josephs 19. 416
20. False
QUIZ 384
1. Erin Brockovich 2. Austin Powers
in Goldmember 3. Keith Richards
4. Helena Bonham Carter 5. Pride
and Prejudice 6. Neo 7. True
8. Stephen King 9. Kathryn Bigelow,
for Hurt Locker 10. Travis Bickle

11. Peter Mayhew 12. Four awards
13. Harrison Ford 14. True 15. Frances
McDormand 16. Peter Jackson
17. James Cameron 18. Johnny Cash
19. The Mask 20. Joe Versus the
Volcano, Sleepless in Seattle, and
You’ve Got Mail 21. The Blind Side
22. Bong Joon Ho directed Parasite
23. Dr. Dolittle, Robert Downey Jr.
24. Dunkirk 25. Harley Quinn
QUIZ 385
1. Captain Abraham Smollett
2. Hannibal Lecter 3. Tom Cruise and
Brad Pitt 4. “And in the darkness bind
them” 5. A Ford Anglia 6. Whoopi
Goldberg 7. Kaa 8. The Hunt for Red
October 9. The Reader 10. Alice in
Wonderland 11. Florence 12. Truman
Capote 13. The Devil Wears Prada
14. Alec Guinness 15. Atonement
16. John Grisham 17. Schindler’s
Ark 18. Seven books 19. Ian Fleming
20. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
QUIZ 386
1. A Few Good Men 2. True—the film was
My Fair Lady 3. True 4. Shakespeare’s
Henry IV and Henry V 5. The film was
Sweeney Todd, and the play was titled
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
6. His Girl Friday 7. Chicago 8. West
Side Story 9. 1945 10. 1954 11. True
12. The Tempest 13. True 14. Hello,
Dolly! 15. The Rocky Horror Picture
Show 16. True 17. Richard Harris
18. False 19. Cabaret
20. Liza Minnelli
QUIZ 387
1. True 2. True 3. Captain America:
The First Avenger 4. Loki 5. False
6. Tony Stark 7. Mjolnir 8. Dr. Robert
Bruce Banner 9. True 10. Project:
Rebirth 11. Robert Downey Jr.
12. Vibranium 13. Golden Apples
of Iduun 14. Clint Barton 15. Masters
of Evil 16. Fifth Avenue, New York
17. Russia 18. Beast 19. Spider-Man
QUIZ 385–390
ANSWERS
20. He can manipulate his arrows so
that they always hit their targets—he’s
a super marksman 21. As a demi-god
22. He’s working as a doctor in
Kolkata, India 23. Spider-Man
24. The Incredible Hulk 25. Strategic
Homeland Intervention, Enforcement
and Logistics Division
QUIZ 388
1. Captain America Comics (1941)
2. 4F 3. He didn’t like bullies
4. Dr. Abraham Erskine 5. True 6. Super
Soldier Serum and “vita-rays” 7. 1945
8. A star 9. Bucky Barnes 10. 2011
11. Iron Man 12. He is opposed
to it 13. Natasha Romanoff, the Black
Widow 14. Bucky Barnes 15. Vibranium
16. Johann Schmidt 17. Peter Parker,
aka Spider-Man 18. Strategic Scientific
Reserve (SSR) Agent Peggy Carter
19. Helicarriers 20. Colonel
Chester Phillips
QUIZ 389
1. 14 years old 2. A visit to the
movies 3. Alfred Pennyworth
4. Two-Face 5. Christopher Nolan
6. The Joker 7. Bane 8. False 9. Red
Hood 10. Azrael 11. Batboy 12. True
13. Bats 14. Oswald Chesterfield
Cobblepot 15. Intern psychiatrist at
the asylum 16. True 17. Oracle
18. False 19. Purple 20. Maroni
QUIZ 390
1. 1929 2. Titanic, Ben-Hur, and
Lord of the Rings: Return of the
King 3. Forrest Gump 4. Beauty
and the Beast, Up, and Toy Story 3
5. Katharine Hepburn 6. True
7. Heath Ledger 8. 59 9. 10 years
old 10. John Ford 11. True
12. Douglas Fairbanks 13. Nine
14. Cate Blanchett for playing
Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator
15. True 16. 12 times 17. The
Godfather 18. Midnight Cowboy
19. Childhood poverty 20. True
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 391
1. Vincent van Gogh 2. Edvard Munch
3. A ballerina 4. San Giorgio Maggiore
at Dusk 5. Pre-Raphaelites 6. Water
Lilies (Monet) 7. Status Quo 8. Mona Lisa
9. Anthony Hopkins 10. Wassily Kandinsky’s
11. Johannes Vermeer 12. The Agony and
the Ecstasy 13. Rembrandt 14. Nat King
Cole 15. Toulouse-Lautrec 16. Andy
Warhol 17. The Great Wave off Kanagawa
18. Salvador Dalí 19. True
20. Ed Harris
QUIZ 392
1. Fritz Lang 2. King Kong 3. Orson
Welles 4. Dashiell Hammett 5. Ingrid
Bergman 6. 19 7. James Stewart
8. 1937 9. 1952 10. Gilda 11. 1930s
12. Giant 13. Marilyn Monroe
14. Spaghetti Western 15. Anne Bancroft
16. The man with no name 17. Ann
Robinson 18. The lion from the MGM
logo 19. True 20. The Men 21. Stephen
King 22. 11 23. Travis Bickle
24. True 25. Frances McDormand
QUIZ 393
1. Poor Cow 2. Carol Reed 3. David
Prowse 4. Covent Garden Market
5. False 6. 1969 7. Lambeth 8. Four
Weddings and a Funeral 9. 1980
10. The Hard Case 11. Julia 12. 1969
13. 1935 14. David Lean 15. False
16. Four 17. BBC 18. American Beauty
19. Family Plot 20. Death Proof and
Planet Terror
QUIZ 394
1. Diamonds Are Forever 2. They’re
actually only three minutes 3. Dr. No
4. He weeps blood 5. False 6. You Only
Live Twice 7. Ernst Stavro 8. Virus Omega
9. Live and Let Die 10. A third nipple
11. Karl Stromberg 12. False 13. Necros
14. Elliot Carver 15. Undetectable
murder and torture 16. There’s a bullet
in his brain 17. Scorpion 18. Kamal
Khan 19. Colonel Moon, North Korean
Army 20. M
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QUIZ 395
1. All of them 2. 1963 3. Gold 4. Blue
5. True 6. StarkCorp 7. Virginia Potts
8. War Machine 9. Titanium Man
10. True 11. 15 12. To save the life
of a dog 13. The superhuman registration
act 14. China 15. Spider-Woman
16. False 17. The Thundercats 18. The
Extremis formula 19. The Human Torch
20. True
QUIZ 396
1. San Diego Comic-Con 2. Ben Burtt
3. Hamburger Hamlet 4. The Journal
of the Whills 5. Naboo 6. Kenny Baker
7. True 8. Darth Vader 9. Yoda
10. General Grievous 11. Elstree Studios
12. False 13. False 14. Grauman’s
Chinese Theater 15. Survivor’s Quest
16. False 17. George Takei 18. Icons
19. Maria in Metropolis 20. Star Wars
QUIZ 397
1. I Can’t Believe It’s a Law Firm
2. Genuine Class 3. How to Chew
Tobacco 4. False 5. Üterbraten
6. Santos L. Halper 7. 31 8. Duff
with Penicillin 9. Eleven 10. Michael
Corleone 11. The mascot for the
doorbell company 12. Bright Lights,
Beef Jerky 13. 25 14. Hugh Jass
15. Krusty’s Kosher Karaoke Machine
16. That Happy Cat 17. 2 years and 38
days 18. McBain IV: Fatal Discharge
19. Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo
20. Downtown Drive-Thru Doctors
QUIZ 398
1. Honey Ryder 2. She is covered in
gold paint 3. Fiona Volpe 4. Tiger
Tanaka 5. Saves her from drowning
herself 6. Diamonds 7. Live and
Let Die 8. False 9. Pilot 10. Crossbow
11. True 12. Kara Milovy 13. Computer
programmer 14. Paris Carver
15. Kazakhstan 16. The Man with the
Golden Gun 17. An orange bikini
18. Fencing 19. The Treasury
20. Camille Montes 21. Golf

22. A poison-tipped blade in her shoe
23. Honor Blackman 24. Diana Rigg
25. Red
QUIZ 399
1. Rebecca 2. Suspense 3. Leytonstone
4. The Lodger 5. False 6. Gloria Swanson
7. Eight 8. 1960 9. Ernest Lehman
10. True 11. 5 years 12. Alma
13. Bernard Herrmann 14. Joseph
15. “Fake it” 16. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
17. True 18. It is never explained 19. A
double bass fiddle 20. April 29, 1980
QUIZ 400
1. 1913 2. 36 3. Alam Ara 4. 1940s to
1960s 5. Mirza Ghalib 6. Dhundiraj
Govind Phalke 7. Devdas 8. True
9. Satyajit Ray 10. True 11. New York
12. 1954 13. Mother India 14. Sharmila
Tagore 15. Nargis Dutt 16. False
17. False 18. Ajay Singh Deol
19. Devika Rani 20. True 21. Telugu
22. Irrfan Khan 23. Priyanka Chopra
24. True 25. Lamhe
QUIZ 401
1. North London 2. New Zealand
3. EMI Elstree Studios in Britain
4. Blade Runner 5. City Hall, Dallas
6. Sydney 7. Ghostbusters 8. 42nd Street
9. Wells, Somerset 10. The Carlton
Street Bridge, Edinburgh 11. Fox Studios
12. Tunisia 13. Salzburg, Austria
14. Notting Hill 15. Central Park
16. Hawaii 17. Tujunga, California
18. True 19. Waldon, Idaho
20. Fleet Street
QUIZ 402
1. Pride and Prejudice 2. Upstairs,
Downstairs 3. Dr. Quinn, Medicine
Woman 4. 1974 and 1983 5. George
Eliot 6. Barry Lyndon 7. Johnny Depp
8. Ireland 9. The 1870s 10. Ridley
Scott 11. 1938 12. Julius Caesar
13. The Iliad 14. True 15. The
Barchester Chronicles 16. Prohibition
17. 10,000 bc 18. Downton Abbey
QUIZ 399–406
ANSWERS
19. Braveheart 20. True 21. Mark
Rylance 22. Poldark 23. Birmingham
24. Cranford 25. Jane Austen
QUIZ 403
1. Crocodile Dundee 2. Picnic at Hanging
Rock 3. Dingo 4. Muriel’s Wedding
5. Romper Stomper 6. Dead Calm
7. Shine 8. Chopper 9. Babe 10. Moulin
Rouge! 11. Rabbit-Proof Fence
12. Gallipoli 13. False 14. Mad Max
15. Happy Feet 16. Wolf Creek
17. Strictly Ballroom 18. The Castle
19. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen
of the Desert 20. True
QUIZ 404
1. The Penguin 2. The Phantom 3. Green
Lantern 4. Fantastic Four 5. Supergirl
6. Lex Luthor 7. Captain America
8. Daredevil 9. True 10. The Incredible
Hulk 11. Magneto 12. Batman and
Robin 13. Spider-Man 14. Galactus
15. True 16. Hellboy 17. The Riddler
18. Mephistopheles 19. X-Men: The
Last Stand 20. Nuclear Man
QUIZ 405
1. 1995 2. Luxo Jr. 3. True
4. Mrs. Nesbit 5. Shark 6. Chess
7. A Bug’s Life 8. 2006 9. False
10. 15 11. 2 12. Kitty 13. True
14. Light blue 15. Marlin 16. Buddy
Pine 17. Violin 18. Porsche
19. Gasteau’s 20. 2805 21. Kevin
22. Lots-o’-Huggin’-Bear
23. Ramone’s House of Body Art
24. Strong Man 25. Yew
QUIZ 406
1. Accordion 2. Ausralia 3. Virginals
4. Guitars 5. Electronic musical
instrument 6. True 7. China 8. True
9. Trumpet 10. Zither 11. Change the
sound 12. True 13. Hi-hat 14. Squawking
15. Stringed 16. Lyre 17. True 18. False
19. Tuba 20. 12 21. The end that projects
the music 22. Seven 23. False
24. Clarinet 25. Oboe
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ANSWERS
QUIZ 407
1. Terrible lizard 2. Necks and tails
3. Stegosaurus 4. True 5. It is the oldest
known bird 6. They flew 7. In the sea
8. A person who studies fossils 9. True
10. True 11. Acting as a cooling system
12. False 13. True 14. No one knows
15. About 230 million years ago 16. True
17. True 18. Fast thief 19. Herbivores
20. False 21. An asteroid hitting Earth
22. Megalosaurus 23. Compsognathus
24. Mary Anning 25. Plesiosaur
QUIZ 408
1. Four 2. 22 3. Ear 4. Carbohydrates
5. Skin 6. Skull 7. About a million
8. Cardiac muscle 9. How we see in
color 10. Uvula 11. Oxygen 12. Hinged
joint 13. Human 14. Lymphatic 15. 32
16. About 35 tons 17. True 18. 26 years
19. Heart down to the abdomen
20. Cell membrane
QUIZ 409
1. The inner core 2. Pluto 3. 365.25
4. 27.3 5. 1 day 6. False 7. Summer
8. False 9. Divergence 10. Sedimentation
11. True 12. Diamond 13. True
14. Igneous 15. True 16. Talc
17. Geologist 18. Coral 19. 71 percent
20. Pacific 21. Clear 22. Wyoming,
at 40 percent of the country’s production
23. Garnet 24. Quartz 25. Basalt
QUIZ 410
1. Eight 2. Neptune 3. 13.7 billion years
4. Buzz Lightyear 5. Earth 6. 12 7. First
human in space 8. The Southern Cross
9. False 10. Columbia 11. Large
Magellanic Cloud 12. Valentina Tereshkova
13. Snoopy cap 14. Barred spiral
15. 8.3 minutes 16. Aristarchus
of Samos 17. True 18. Water-bearer
19. 1609 20. Ursa Major
QUIZ 411
1. True 2. Characters in ancient
Egyptian writing 3. True 4. Scooped
it out through the nose 5. Mesopotamians
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6. True 7. True 8. Wood 9. 1876
10. It went down a chute into the moat
11. Hubble 12. True 13. China
14. Young boys 15. None of these
16. The postage stamp 17. A bicycle
18. The Black Death 19. 1857
20. Siege engines
QUIZ 412
1. South 2. Roald Amundsen
3. Musk 4. True 5. 60 miles (96 km)
6. February 7. Tundra 8. White
9. Inuit 10. Narwhal 11. Leopard seal
12. 100,000 years 13. False 14. France
15. 2,000 lb (1,360 kg) 16. 1821
17. False (Antarctic) 18. A bird
19. True 20. On its feet
QUIZ 413
1. The Castle of Otranto 2. Victor
3. The Monk 4. Shudder novel 5. Italy
6. Carmilla 7. 1818 8. Northanger
Abbey 9. Lord Byron 10. Zastrozzi
11. The Vampyre 12. Edgar Allan Poe
13. 1847 14. An English Opium-Eater
15. The monkey’s paw 16. The Pit
and the Pendulum 17. Mad, bad, and
dangerous to know 18. Fanny Burney
19. Aunt Ada Doom 20. Strawberry
Hill 21. Late 18th century 22. False
23. Manfred 24. The Old English
Baron 25. Susan Hill
QUIZ 414
1. True 2. Clans 3. Six 4. Little Armored
One 5. Deserts 6. The Romans 7. 17
years 8. True 9. Badgers 10. 550 lb
(250 kg) 11. More than 1 million
12. Warrens 13. True 14. 10 years
15. True 16. Formic 17. True 18. True
19. False 20. 9 in (23 cm) 21. North
America 22. They don’t—they steal them
from other animals 23. Devil worm
24. True 25. In their cheek pouches
QUIZ 415
1. True 2. Five 3. Float 4. Eyes 5. Fish
6. Close and cover themselves 7. False
8. Whelk 9. Algae 10. True 11. Open

their shells 12. A spoonful 13. Jellyfish
14. True 15. Slime 16. True 17. True
18. A type of seaweed 19. Rippling the
muscles in their foot 20. A univalve
QUIZ 416
1. 26 2. The Clocky 3. The
penny-farthing 4. The Peel P60 5. True
6. Poland 7. False 8. Italy 9. An anti-
tilting device 10. Kirkpatrick Macmillan
11. Six 12. Novelty 13. 295 yd (270 m)
14. False 15. 1869 16. The biggest plane
in the world 17. Reverse 18. Transform
into a boat 19. 1903 20. 30 ft (9 m) long
21. 16 22. False 23. Boneshaker
24. Mountain 25. The dandy horse
QUIZ 417
1. A Tale of Two Cities 2. False
3. And Then There Were None
4. The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe 5. Lolita 6. Catch-22
7. She 8. Richard Bach 9. The Alchemist
10. Anne of Green Gables 11. Dragon
Tattoo 12. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
13. Margaret Mitchell 14. Nineteen
Eighty-Four 15. The Secret Diary of
Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 16. True
17. Watership Down 18. Stephen
King 19. Cao Xueqin 20. Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry
QUIZ 418
1. The hippopotamus 2. The elephant
shrew 3. Bat 4. Two 5. The gorilla
6. The whale 7. The crocodile 8. The
ratel 9. The zebra 10. The aardvark
11. Antelope 12. Spotted hyenas
13. True 14. The gnu 15. False
16. Small antelope 17. True 18. The
dwarf mongoose 19. 40,000 20. Four
21. Oxpecker 22. Black mamba
23. True 24. Martial eagle
25. A lynxlike cat with long ears
QUIZ 419
1. Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism
2. Dog 3. Spine 4. Joseph Pilates
5. Core 6. True 7. Weights 8. False
QUIZ 416–423
ANSWERS
9. All of these 10. Prana 11. Early
morning or the evening 12. Resting
between poses 13. Aligning your
body 14. Germany 15. True
16. The powerhouse 17. Rolldown
18. True 19. True 20. Dogs
QUIZ 420
1. Vivienne Westwood 2. Sex and
the City 3. 1990s 4. Shoulder pads
5. Milan 6. Christian Dior 7. Louis
Vuitton 8. Bazaar 9. Chanel 10. Dior
11. True 12. Halston 13. True 14. Elsa
Schiaparelli 15. Paul McCartney
16. True 17. Audrey Hepburn 18. The
1980s 19. A flapper 20. 1950s
QUIZ 421
1. Patrick White 2. Thomas Keneally
3. He began writing 4. A state funeral
5. Peter Carey 6. Colleen McCullough
7. Ruth Park 8. Nevil Shute 9. Morris
West 10. Germaine Greer 11. Barry
Humphries 12. Marcus Clarke 13. The
Well Dressed Explorer 14. Joseph Furphy
15. 1915 16. The first published Australian
Aboriginal 17. Having it rejected by
multiple publishers 18. False
19. Joan Lindsay 20. B. Paterson
QUIZ 422
1. Buddha 2. Muhammad
3. 632 ce 4. Hinduism 5. Christianity
6. 2.1 billion 7. Confucius 8. Jamaica
9. 1930s 10. A branched candelabrum
used in Jewish ceremonies 11. Punjab
12. True 13. True 14. India 15. False
16. Judaism 17. Atheism 18. True
19. Maori 20. Japan 21. Haiti
22. Easter 23. The Avesta
24. True 25. Hinduism
QUIZ 423
1. 1970s 2. Vatican City 3. Shanghai
4. Thomas Jefferson 5. St. Basil
6. Elizabeth Tower 7. False 8. Sir
Christopher Wren 9. Athens
10. Antonio Gaudí 11. His
deceased wife, Mumtaz Mahal
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ANSWERS
12. Holyrood Palace 13. False
14. Oxfordshire 15. London 16. King
Louis XIV 17. True 18. Château de
Chambord 19. Buddhism 20. Norway
21. Beijing, China 22. Buckingham
Palace 23. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
24. St. Petersburg, Russia
25. Centre Pompidou
QUIZ 424
1. 11th century 2. True 3. Franklin
Pierce 4. All of these 5. Nehru–Gandhi
6. Abbasid 7. President and prime minister
8. 2010 9. Khan, Yuan Dynasty 10. Kublai
Khan 11. Zhou Dynasty 12. True 13. The
Ptolemaic Dynasty 14. 30 bce 15. Tudor
16. Elizabeth I 17. True 18. False
19. 1959–2008 20. The Habsburgs
QUIZ 425
1. Pamplona 2. Bulgaria 3. Nigeria
4. True 5. Diwali 6. Spain 7. China
8. New Orleans 9. Rosh Hashanah
10. False 11. India 12. China
13. Turkey 14. Sweden 15. Mexico
16. Orange 17. Baseball 18. Germany
19. Bermuda 20. Namaste
QUIZ 426
1. 88 2. 3,000 3. Proxima Centauri
4. 4.2 light years 5. Five 6. False
7. Up to 400 billion 8. A supernova
9. Uranus 10. The Plow 11. The
Northern Crown 12. Great Bear
13. Taurus 14. 48 15. Pegasus
16. Gemini 17. Two stars orbiting each
other 18. Spica 19. Its surface temperature
20. Orion’s Belt 21. A blue giant
22. By nuclear fusion 23. It turns
into a planetary nebula 24. Blue
25. A cloud of dust and gas
QUIZ 427
1. South American 2. True 3. True
4. More than 115,000 5. Scorched earth
6. False 7. Vladivostok 8. True
9. The Dead Sea 10. 36,100 ft (11,000 m)
11. The mosquito 12. True 13. Burrows
14. True 15. 7 miles (11.2 km) 16. True
520
17. False 18. Ten times 19. True
20. Reindeer or caribou 21. True
22. Black 23. Gravity 24. Maria
25. Nuclear fusion
QUIZ 428
1. Chemistry 2. Astronomy 3. Rosalind
Franklin 4. Female professor 5. Mary
Anning 6. Chimpanzees 7. That it
contained an inner core 8. Mary Leakey
9. Physics 10. United States 11. False
12. Marie Curie 13. 1986 14. True
15. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi 16. Gorillas
17. Dorothy Hodgkin 18. Pulsars
19. Nuclear fission 20. Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu
QUIZ 429
1. Murano 2. False 3. Ponte Vecchio
4. Panettone 5. Sicily 6. Juliet
7. Siena 8. Gnocchi 9. River Arno
10. True 11. Elba 12. Vespasian
13. Milan 14. February 15. Turin
16. 117 17. True 18. Hadrian
19. Sicily 20. Mount Vesuvius
21. Strait of Messina 22. Virgil
23. Sardinia 24. Amalfi Coast
25. Autostrada
QUIZ 430
1. Orange 2. Fish hitch
3. Grizzly and polar 4. Sahara
5. True 6. All of them 7. A method of
melting snow 8. Seeds 9. Wind speed
10. Indian elephant 11. Short log
12. True 13. Cavern 14. A small
coil of cordage 15. True 16. 3 minutes
17. Iodine 18. False 19. Making fire
20. Bacteria in the soil 21. True
22. Frostnip 23. Shemagh
24. About 3 weeks 25. True
QUIZ 431
1. Mecca 2. Jericho 3. Zambia and
Zimbabwe 4. Victoria Falls 5. False
6. France 7. Sahara 8. True 9. Nevada
10. Ceylon 11. Times Square, NYC
12. Jorn Otzon 13. Buenos Aires
and Montevideo 14. A mausoleum

15. Jules Verne 16. False
17. River Thames 18. Necker
19. Old Peak 20. Cultural
QUIZ 432
1. Java 2. Japan 3. An underwater
earthquake 4. True 5. Avalanche
6. India 7. 1906 8. Mt. St. Helens
9. At least 225,000 10. Floods
11. Galveston, Texas 12. Harbor wave
13. Lisbon 14. Sicily 15. Vesuvius
16. Tunguska 17. Storm and
tidal flooding 18. 1970 Bhola
cyclone 19. Monsoon
20. May
QUIZ 433
1. Johnny Depp 2. Antioxidants
3. Criollo 4. True 5. Irregular
raw bean fragments 6. Europe
7. St. Lucia 8. Switzerland 9. Flowers
10. 20 to 40 11. Food of the Gods
12. Oompa Loompas 13. 1657
14. Cocoa solids 15. 2004
16. 210–290ºF (99–145ºC)
17. False 18. Swiss 19. True
20. France and Germany
QUIZ 434
1. Eight 2. “Silent Night” 3. Goose
4. My true love 5. December 13
6. 1843 7. Golden rope 8. Germany
9. True 10. Good luck 11. Oliver
Cromwell 12. Caspar 13. Christmas
tree 14. Beef and spices 15. Greek
16. Norway 17. 24,902 miles (40,075 km)
18. Spain 19. Fertility and love
20. Christina Rossetti 21. Clement
Clarke Moore 22. True 23. Christmas
crackers 24. Break it 25. Poinsettia
QUIZ 435
1. 522,000 light years across
2. A lung disease caused by silica
dust 3. False 4. Around 1,665
5. It is the world’s largest container
ship 6. The sun 7. California
8. True 9. Summit supercomputer
10. The world’s biggest truck
QUIZ 432–438
ANSWERS
11. Mesoscale science 12. The
largest star found by astronomers
13. The world’s biggest movable
machine 14. The Big Bang
15. 70 percent 16. True 17. Antonov
An-225 18. Jupiter 19. Supertanker
20. POPE
QUIZ 436
1. Harfleur 2. King Duncan’s blood
3. He blinds the Earl of Gloucester
4. Drink 5. A crocodile 6. Falstaff
7. Bottom’s dream 8. His reputation
9. Miranda 10. A Winter’s Tale
11. Hamlet 12. “The rest is silence.”
13. False 14. Men 15. Henry VI,
Part 2 16. Theseus 17. Puck
18. Much Ado about Nothing
19. Richard II 20. Venus
QUIZ 437
1. Mariana Ocean Trench, Pacific
2. Dead Sea 3. Coast redwood
4. Burj Khalifa, Dubai
5. 250,000 miles (400,000 km)
6. Caspian Sea, Eurasia 7. Proxima
Centauri 8. 3,960 miles (6,370 km)
9. Mount Everest, Himalayas
10. 93 million miles (150 million km)
11. The moon 12. South Africa
13. Lake Baikal, Siberia 14. 62 miles
(100 km) 15. The Nile, Africa
16. Andromeda Galaxy 17. Andes,
South America 18. 28,000 light years
19. 24 million miles (38 million km)
20. 24,900 miles (40,000 km)
QUIZ 438
1. Quentin Tarantino 2. Amy
Winehouse 3. Tom Clancy
4. Green Bay Packers 5. France
6. Edward of Woodstock 7. Grey’s
Anatomy 8. True 9. Neil Diamond
10. Barry White 11. Sean Connery
12. Amsterdam, Netherlands
13. A hazard on the track 14. False
15. Green 16. Star 17. Orange
River 18. Five 19. The Black Sea
20. World War I 21. False
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ANSWERS
22. Great White Shark 23. The Red Cross
24. 14th 25. Vermilion
QUIZ 439
1. Germany 2. For camouflage
when underwater 3. Vivian Fuchs
4. To collect penguins’ eggs
5. -128°F (-89°C) 6. There isn’t one
7. King Edward VII 8. Transantarctic
Mountains 9. Hole in the ozone layer
10. Mount Erebus 11. Cat 12. Their
urine 13. Extreme Cold Weather
14. 1959 15. Norwegian 16. Feet
17. Lead 18. Nunatak 19. Ridges
of snow and ice 20. Henry
Morton Stanley
QUIZ 440
1. Lancia Delta Integrale 2. Bugeye
3. 2.8 4. People’s car 5. Alfa Romeo
1900 SSZ 6. 85 mph (137 kmph) 7. True
8. Netherlands 9. Motorcycle sidecars
10. Northern Ireland 11. Mighty Mouse
12. Elon Musk 13. Chevrolet Corvette
14. 1997 15. Ariel Atom 16. 4 seconds
17. True 18. Lithium-ion batteries
19. 73 20. 1933 21. 180 mph (290 kmph)
22. 2.4 seconds 23. 260 mph (418 kmph)
24. 2.5 seconds 25. 40–45 mph
(64–72 kmph)
QUIZ 441
1. Navajo 2. Alaska and Canada
3. Esperanto 4. 200,000 5. 20
6. Xhosa 7. 20 8. Pite Sami 9. True
10. Klingon 11. Your mother has a
smooth forehead! 12. An extinct
language 13. A conlanger 14. Old
Norse 15. Icelandic 16. True
17. Nakhi 18. 90% 19. The Babel
fish 20. Frisian
QUIZ 442
1. Cerberus 2. Sisyphus 3. Hera
4. False 5. Pandora 6. Athena 7. 12
8. The 10-year war between the Titans
and the Olympians 9. You would turn
to stone 10. Ithaca 11. Theseus
12. He was dipped into the river Styx
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as a child 13. Cronus 14. True
15. God of War 16. Fire 17. Wine
18. Atlas 19. Persephone 20. Apollo
and Artemis 21. Iris 22. 12 23. Daedalus
24. Menelaus 25. 100
QUIZ 443
1. The Babylonians 2. The fourth
century bce 3. India 4. Geographia
5. A legend 6. Around 1,100
7. South America 8. Gunter’s
chain 9. North America 10. True
11. 1492 12. An inset map 13. Water
14. Belgium 15. Grids 16. True
17. The equator 18. True 19. 12
20. The bar scale
QUIZ 444
1. 12,000 tons (12,192 metric tons)
2. 33% 3. 12/100 in (3 mm) 4. Road transport
5. Farming 6. 10 percent 7. Pacific
8. True 9. Sulfur dioxide 10. CFCs
11. Sumatra’s, in Indonesia 12. CFCs
13. Symbiotic algae are expelled
14. Tourism resorts 15. Amur leopard
16. Soybean cultivation 17. Florida
18. Mercury 19. Agriculture
20. Ganges
QUIZ 445
1. Venus 2. Mercury and Venus
3. Fireball meteors 4. Neptune
5. Mars 6. Jupiter 7. Mars
8. The dark split in Saturn’s
rings 9. Uranus 10. Baily’s Beads
11. 97.9 degrees 12. Meteoroids
13. Neptune 14. Pluto 15. Yellow
dwarf 16. Geraldyn Cobb 17. Venus
18. A transit 19. Giovanni Schiaparelli
20. A conjunction 21. Comets
22. Ganymede 23. White dwarf
24. Voyager 1 25. 125 billion
QUIZ 446
1. Every 500,000 years 2. Eleven
3. Polarity reversals 4. True 5. True
6. Outgassing 7. Photosynthesis
8. They are anaerobic 9. Helium
10. 3.5 billion years 11. Panthalassa
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ANSWERS
12. 298 mph (480 kmph) 13. Wegener 9. False 10. Jane Austen 11. Winston
14. True 15. Petrology 16. Older Churchill 12. Noël Coward 13. James
17. Mountains 18. Compete Joyce 14. True 15. Charles Darwin
19. Convection 20. Divergence 16. Karl Marx 17. Joan Crawford
18. False 19. Edvard Grieg
QUIZ 447 20. J. M. W. Turner
1. Potential energy 2. False 3. Energy
is stored as it stretches 4. Work in raising
the weight 5. Kinetic 6. True 7. At the
bottom of the hill 8. False 9. Gravity
10. Time 11. Kinetic energy 12. True
13. Velocity 14. Principle of energy
conservation 15. False 16. Brownian
motion 17. Expands the air, which pushes
the bullet 18. Lavoisier 19. Mechanical
equivalence of heat 20. True

QUIZ 448
1. John Donne 2. Mary Seacole 3. Oliver
Cromwell 4. Catherine Parr 5. Lord
Kitchener 6. Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi 7. F. D. Roosevelt 8. Chartists
9. Julius Caesar 10. Runaway slaves
11. The duke of Wellington 12. Lord
Howard of Effingham 13. He was a
woman 14. Robinson Crusoe 15. William
Booth 16. The sons of Edward IV 17. John
Wesley 18. Robert Catesby 19. Spencer
Perceval 20. Trygve Lie 21. Frances
Stewart 22. George Eliot 23. Alcock
and Brown 24. Alexander the Great
25. Henry VIII

QUIZ 449
1. Hoi An 2. Amazon Rain Forest
3. Paris, France 4. True 5. La Paz
6. Western Ghats 7. The Matterhorn
8. The Falklands and South Georgia
9. Kata Tjuta 10. 54 11. Mount Cook
12. Canada 13. India 14. -2ºF (-19ºC)
15. Sumo wrestling 16. Modern
17. United States 18. Japan 19. True
20. True

QUIZ 450
1. Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. 2. Richard
Feynman 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. True 5. Pablo Picasso 6. Dylan Thomas
7. H. G. Wells 8. John Maynard Keynes

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 Acknowledgments

Dorling Kindersley would like to thank Anukriti Arora, Shipra Jain, Ankita Das, and
Adhithi Priya for design assistance and Arushi Mathur for editorial assistance.

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